Air crash still a mystery
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) COPENHAGEN, September 2. Experts have tried to find 1 out why a Hungarian airliner suddenly dived into the sea on Saturday, apparently taking the crew of 10 and 24 passengers unawares. Only three persons survived, a man and two women, when the Ilyushin 18 ditched in shallow seas about seven nautical miles from Copenhagen as it came in to land. Airport officials say there was no Mayday (distress) signal, most of the passengers found dead in the aircraft wore no seat belts, and four were slumped round a coffee-table. A Danish accidents commission has joined a Hungarian commission in an inquiry into the accident, which was the worst in Denmark’s postwar civil aviation history. In 1949, a Scandinavian Airlines plane crashed, killing 28 persons.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32702, 3 September 1971, Page 25
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130Air crash still a mystery Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32702, 3 September 1971, Page 25
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