Crash body identified

Windhoek - Officials investigating a suspected mid-air collision off Namibia between German and US military planes said yesterday…

Windhoek - Officials investigating a suspected mid-air collision off Namibia between German and US military planes said yesterday they had identified the only victim found so far. "The body has been identified. It is that of one of three women on the German plane," the German Air Transport Command chief, Gen Gerhard Back, told a news briefing. The body was that of Ms Saskia Neumeyer (43), an air hostess.

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