48 die in air crash
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) NIAMEY (Niger), August 12 Forty-eight people died when an Air Mali Ilyushin 18 crashed near Ouagadougou, in Upper Volta, during the night, the Air Navigational Security Agency for Africa is quoted as reported by Agence France Presse.
Fourteen people escaped from the crash, the A.S.E.C.N.A. report said. In Ouagadougou, the hospital confirmed that 12 injured people had been brought in from the crash with various injuries, some of them serious, and said it was believed that 50 people had died. The airliner was en route from Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia, to Kano, in Nigeria, had made a stop in Khartoum, and was making for Kano when bad weather forced it to divert to Niamey. However, the A.SE.C.N.A. report says, an instrument failure caused it to head for Ouagadougou by mistake. Only five minutes away from the safety of the airport in the Upper Volta capital, the pilot was forced to try a crashlanding on part of the main Ouagadougou - to - Niamey road. The aircraft was on a regular monthly run from Bamako, in Mali, to Jeddah and return.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33611, 13 August 1974, Page 14
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