Word: ndola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after 1 a.m., the Ndola control tower got a message from a plane that refused to identify itself, asking permission to drop to 6,000 ft. When nothing more was heard from the plane, Ndola assumed it had veered away and landed at another field. Not until nine hours later were air search parties called out, and at 3 p.m., a Rhodesian scout plane radioed back the news: the Albertina had crashed in a dense forest less than seven miles from the end of the Ndola runway. Hammarskjold's body was found a few yards from the charred...
Experts ruled out The Lone Ranger, said there was no evidence that the plane had exploded in midair. The "explosions," they said, were probably the plane's landing gear hitting treetops as it approached the Ndola field too low. "It looks like a typical case of power failure or faulty instruments," said one. Another possibility: pilot error. Captain Per-Erik Hallonquist, although a veteran of 7,000 hours and countless jungle flights, had been on continuous duty for 36 hours. But some doubt and suspicion would probably always linger over the wrecked DC-6 in the woods outside Ndola...
...control tower at Ndola, barely seven miles from the charred clearing slashed out by Dag Hammarskjold's doomed plane, two men arranged the cease-fire he had set out to negotiate. After a two-day session, Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and U.N. Negotiator Mahmoud Khiari signed a provisional truce, ending the eight-day Battle of Katanga. Unofficial death toll: 44 U.N. troops, 152 Katangese police and soldiers, 79 African civilians, 14 European civilians...
Tshombe's victory may not last long. Khiari made it plain at a press conference in Ndola that Katanga's "secession is a matter of fact, but it is not legal nor is it a right." Returning to Leopoldville, he told newsmen that he hoped to help "Katanga and the central government to find a peaceful solution, just as we achieved with the central government and the Stanleyville regime" of leftist Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga...
Died. Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, 56, second Secretary-General of the United Nations, a dauntless Swede who pursued peace but lived with conflict; in a plane crash; near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (see THE WORLD...