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1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash

18 sept 1961 · 12.98° S, 28.52° E

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18 sept 1961
Tipo
Evento
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12.98° S, 28.52° E
Description
1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash: Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld is one of 16 to die in an air crash en route to Katanga, Congo.

Situado en: coordinates of the event it links, 1961 Ndola Transair Sweden Douglas DC-6 crash.

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1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash: Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld is one of 16 to die in an air crash en route to Katanga, Congo

1961 Ndola Transair Sweden Douglas DC-6 crash

1961 aircraft crash in Northern Rhodesia

On 18 September 1961, a DC-6 passenger aircraft of Transair Sweden operating for the United Nations (UN) crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia. The crash resulted in the deaths of all people on board, including Dag Hammarskjöld, the second secretary-general of the United Nations, and 15 others. Hammarskjöld had been en route to ceasefire negotiations with Moïse Tshombe during the Congo Crisis.

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