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Swiss Crash Aftermath #25318

ABC Evening News for Wednesday, Apr 11, 1973
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(Studio) Yesterday charter plane carrying English passengers to Switzerland crashed near Basel. More than 90 killed and 35 injured. Passengers hsewives. from 4 villages near Bristol.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

(Axebridge, England) Small village Axebridge mourns deaths of crash victims. Almost 100 children lost 1 of parents. [Dorothy OWEN - says 1 of her sisters hasn't been accounted for yet.] [Retired teacher David JONES - says town emotionally drained.] [Milkman Brian COLE - says tragic that so many children left without mothers.]
REPORTER: Don Farmer

Reporter(s):
Farmer, Don;
Reasoner, Harry
Duration:
00:02:50

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