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Article: Political leaders who fell to earth; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 28, 2006
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QUESTIONFollowing Tony Blair's 'close run thing' after his plane was delayed from taking off owing to engine trouble, has a world leader ever died in a plane crash?
THIS is an occupational hazard for world leaders, considering the amount of airtime they put in.
Victims since World War II include: Ramon Magsaysay, the Philippines president, died in a plane crash on Mount Manunggal in Cebu on March 16, 1957.
Dag Hammarskjold, the Swedish former secretary-general of the UN, was killed on September 18, 1961 in a plane crash near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).
Abdul Salam Arif, president of Iraq, was killed in a helicopter crash in ...