INDIA: PAN-AM AIR CRASH NEAR CALCUTTA

Record ID: 381331

  • Title: INDIA: PAN-AM AIR CRASH NEAR CALCUTTA
  • Date: 14th June 1968
  • Summary: WRECKAGE ON GROUND; SALVAGE WORKERS AND SOLDIERS ROUND WRECK; BODIES; PEOPLE WATCHING. Initials EH/VS/AS/SC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 29th June 1968 13:00
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  • Location: DUM DUM, NEAR CALCUTTA, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Reuters ID: LVADFXS99M4296PF9IP10R23BKYB
  • Story Text: 57 PEOPLE WALKED AWAY FROM THE WRECKAGE OF A PAN AMERICAN BOEING 707 AIRLINER WHICH CRASHED AND BURST INTO FLAMES EARLY YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) NEAR CALCUTTA AIRPORT.

    SIX PEOPLE (AN AIR HOSTESS, FOUR WOMEN PASSENGERS AND A CHILD) DIED IN THE CRASH. 24 PASSENGERS WERE INJURED, ONE OF THEM SERIOUSLY.

    THE FIRE BEGAN IN THE TAIL-SECTION OF THE FOUR-ENGINED JET AND SPREAD THROUGH THE AIRCRAFT, WHICH WAS CARRYING 53 PASSENGERS AND A CREW OF 10 ON THE TOKYO-LONDON LEG OF A ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT FROM LOS ANGELES TO NEW YORK.

    RESCUE WORKERS, FIREFIGHTERS AND AMBULANCES HAD DIFFICULTY IN REACHING THE SITE - AT DUM DUM, 18 MILES FROM CALCUTTA - THROUGH WATER-LOGGED RICE FIELDS.

    ONE OF THE SURVIVORS WAS THE ANGLICAN BISHOP OF HONG KONG, THE RIGHT REVEREND GILBERT BARKER, WHO WAS UNHURT.
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