Cockpit in the Grauniad today
Pilot said to be ex RAF and may have brought down Hammesholdt.
For the clueless - such as myself.
Guardian article -
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...skjold-in-1961
"RAF veteran ‘admitted 1961 killing of UN secretary general’
Exclusive: Cold case documentary casts new light on mystery of Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane crash"
"New evidence has emerged linking an RAF veteran to the death in 1961 of the UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld in a mysterious plane crash in southern Africa.
Jan van Risseghem has been named as a possible attacker before, but has always been described simply as a Belgian pilot. The Observer can now reveal that he had extensive ties to Britain, including a British mother and wife, trained with the RAF and was decorated by Britain for his service in the second world war.
Film-makers investigating the 1961 crash for a documentary, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, ..."
Guardian article -
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...skjold-in-1961
"RAF veteran ‘admitted 1961 killing of UN secretary general’
Exclusive: Cold case documentary casts new light on mystery of Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane crash"
"New evidence has emerged linking an RAF veteran to the death in 1961 of the UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld in a mysterious plane crash in southern Africa.
Jan van Risseghem has been named as a possible attacker before, but has always been described simply as a Belgian pilot. The Observer can now reveal that he had extensive ties to Britain, including a British mother and wife, trained with the RAF and was decorated by Britain for his service in the second world war.
Film-makers investigating the 1961 crash for a documentary, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, ..."
The 'shootdown' theory is based on the triumphal cries from a Fouga Magister trainer, without gunsights or ground radar, overheard by a US listening station in Cyprus some 3,200 miles away. He would have to fly some 130 miles to intercept an aircraft which might be over Ndola at midnight?
The DC6 took off from Kinshasa, elevation 790 ft. to land at Ndola, elevation 4,300 ft. Descending in the black to a minimal lighted airfield?
.No problem, we have 5,000ft to go.
The DC6 took off from Kinshasa, elevation 790 ft. to land at Ndola, elevation 4,300 ft. Descending in the black to a minimal lighted airfield?
.No problem, we have 5,000ft to go.
Another old chestnut which is total BS.
we lived in Lusaka at the time. My Dad worked for DCA and was one of the first on the Scene. When he came home I remember him saying it had all the hallmarks of CFIT and no other damage was visible on the AC.
we lived in Lusaka at the time. My Dad worked for DCA and was one of the first on the Scene. When he came home I remember him saying it had all the hallmarks of CFIT and no other damage was visible on the AC.
FED, "Skip" is your friend I guess! Since when were Control Towers open at midnight in that part of the World in those days?
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and a current article on this topic in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/w...h-mystery.html
and a current article on this topic in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/w...h-mystery.html
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The pilot in the picture (is/was) Jan Van Rysseghem. When I was a very young glider pilot, I remember him coming to the local flying club to see the 'boss'; it was in the mid 60s, the name certainly rings a bell.
