Tragedy in the Alps

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1813A

Date Released

5 Mar 1964

Date submitted

1 Mar 1964

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Tragedy in the Alps. DESCRIPTION: In the mountains of the Austrian Tyrol, a British Eagle Britannia crashed, killing eight crew and seventy five passengers. It took rescuers twenty hours to locate the plane after the last radio message was received. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV aerial Tyrol Mountains. GV same. CU rescue team inspecting map of district. CU map. GV pan rescue plane out of hangar. GV pan same takes off. GV rescue teams assembled. CU same away in Land Rover. GV aerial Tyrol Mountains with helicopter flying around. GV crashed Britannia on mountain side. CU rescue team through snow. GV pan same at scene of crash. GV pan wreckage strewn down mountain side. GV mountains.

Keywords

Aviation; Communications; Accidents and disasters

Locations

Innsbruck; Austria

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

88008

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

110

Story extras:

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