1961 Ndola Transair Sweden Douglas DC-6 crash

When

18 Sep 1961

Kind

Event

Coordinates

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.

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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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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Flugzeug mit dem amtierenden UN-Generalsekretär Dag Hammarskjöld an Bord stürzt unter mysteriösen Umständen bei einer Friedensmission im Kongo ab”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в авиационной катастрофе вблизи города Ндола (ныне в Замбии) погиб Генеральный секретарь ООН Даг Хаммаршёльд”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “联合国DC-6号班机在北罗得西亚坠毁，联合国秘书长达格·哈马舍尔德等15人遇难”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page