/ 17 December 2000

AIR CRASH WRECKAGE RECOVERED

A NAMIBIAN fishing trawler has recovered wreckage and personal effects believed to be from the 1997 mid-air crash between US and German military planes which killed 33 people. German and US military experts will be called to Namibia to identify the items caught in the trawler’s net near the crash site, at sea off the remote Skeleton Coast. Only the body of a German air stewardess was recovered after the crash on September 13, 1997, despite one of the most extensive international searches ever launched off the forbidding Namibian coast. – AFP