Resurrecting an old thread :
AN IRISH flight engineer whose death was prematurely announced 51 years ago has died in Britain, aged 86.
Dubliner Edmund O’Keeffe survived a crash on a test flight of a Bristol Britannia 312 on the morning of Christmas Eve, 1958, but the
Evening Press reported that he had died.
Because of the Christmas break, it took his family several days to correct the report and they were inundated with condolences, his sister Maura Greene told
The Irish Times : “For nearly a week people thought he was dead.”
His wife, Bernie O’Keeffe, recalled the
Evening Press had to be hidden from Mr O’Keeffe’s mother in case it upset her.
Death of flight engineer who 'died' 51 years ago - The Irish Times - Thu, Dec 03, 2009