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Swiss police confirm 20 dead in WWII vintage plane crash
FLIMS, Suisse, Aug 5, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Twenty people died after a vintage
World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside, police said Sunday.
“The police have the sad certainty that the 20 people aboard perished,”
police spokeswoman Anita Senti told a news conference.
The Junker JU52 HB-HOT aircraft, built in Germany in 1939 and now a
collectors’ item, crashed into the Piz Segnas mountain in the east of the
country on Saturday.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1825 hrs