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20 dead as WWII vintage plane crashes into Swiss mountainside
[DAWN] Twenty people died after a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside at the weekend, police said on Sunday."The police have the sad certainty that the 20 people aboard perished," police spokeswoman Anita Senti told a news conference. There were 11 men and nine women aboard, including an Austrian couple and their son, she said. The German-built Junker JU52 HB-HOT aircraft, dating from 1939 and nickamed "Iron Annie", was a collectors' aircraft. It crashed into Piz Segnas, a 3,000-metre (10,000-foot) peak in the east of the country on Saturday at an altitude of 2,540 metres on the mountain's western flank, Senti said.  Posted by: Fred 2018-08-06 |
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