Article: Political leaders who fell to earth; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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 ...

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