- Title: YUGOSLAVIA: WRECKAGE OF WORLD'S WORST MID-AIR CRASH.
- Date: 10th September 1976
- Summary: 1. AERIAL VIEW TO GROUND Yugoslav airliner debris 0.05 2. GV Wreckage strewn through woodland (6 shots) 0.50 3. GV PAN Cornfield with wreckage of British Airways aircraft 0.58 4. GVs Wreckage (2 shots) 1.12 5. LV Wreckage 1.18 6. CU Child's push-chair TILT UP TO GV debris 1.28 7. GV PAN Wreckage 1.42 REPORTER: "The 'planes apparently collided over open country, about 15 miles from the Croatian capital of Zagreb, and they plunged into the ground from a height estimated at well over 30,000 feet. The Yugoslav charter 'plane carrying the German tourists fell into a wooded area. It was in flames before it hit the ground. The German holiday-makers had been flying home to Cologne after a holiday in Split on the Adriatic Coast. There were no survivors from either 'plane. "Pieces of the aircraft and pathetic items of personal baggage were strewn over a wide area. "The largest piece of wreckage from the British trident plunged into a field of maize not far away. It was terribly torn and twisted. The entire area has now been sealed off by units of the Yugoslav internal security forces, while the experts go about the grim task of trying to identify the bodies of the victims and to determine what could have caused the disaster. Eye-witnesses have already told investigators that they saw a big ball of fire and heard the sound of an explosion before the wreckage tumbled from the sky." "A big search is now being made for the flight recording boxes which should provide details of what happened in the last moments before the collision." Initials OS/200 TELERECORDING ROBERT ELPHICK Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NEAR ZAGREB, YUGOSLAVIA
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- Country: Yugoslavia
- Reuters ID: LVAAX2GIT2JP2U87229ONIU4DAI2
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