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On This Day In 1961, UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld Dies in Mysterious Ndola DC-6 Crash, Killing 16 and Sparking Decades of Unanswered Questions
On September 18, 1961, one of the most enduring mysteries in United Nations history unfolded near Ndola, then in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. A Transair Sweden Douglas DC-6B named Albertina, registered SE-BDY and operating on behalf of the United Nations, crashed during a nighttime approach to Ndola Airport, killing all 16 people aboard. Among the…
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