AIR CRASH INQUIRY
Death Of U.N. Secretary (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NDOLA (N. Rhodesia), January 17. Katanga’s two Fouga jet fighters did not operate from their base at Kolwezi on the night of the airliner crash which killed Mr Dag Hammarskjold, a commission investigating the crash was told yesterday. The witness, Major Joseph Delin, pilot in charge of the tw’o jets, said all night flying from Kolwezi was stopped last July. The chief engineer of the Transair Air Line (Mr V. Irving) said he had visited the crash site daily to look for sabotage. He had been “suspicious” about a few holes he found in the aircraft. “They might have been bullet holes,” he said. He said that neither of the Fougas operated without him at any time in September. The DC6B carrying Mr Hammarskjold to talks with President Tshombe of Katanga crashed near Ndola on the night of September 17. Major Delin told the commission he did not know the DC6B was on its way to Ndola, although he knew Mr Hammarskjold was expected there.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29724, 18 January 1962, Page 15
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