Mayday

Season 15, Episode 9

Episode Title: Deadly Mission (1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash)

Air Date: 2016-02-29

Overview:

On 18 September 1961, a Douglas DC-6 operated by Transair Sweden, carrying Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, crashes en route to cease-fire negotiations in Northern Rhodesia during the Congo Crisis. All of the 16 passengers and crew members are killed.