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“He’s approaching the airport. He’s turning. He’s levelling. Another plane is approaching from behind - what is that?”

To avoid undue complication in this part of the report we deal in detail with all the eye-witnesses in Appendix 1, We have divided them into four classes.
In Classes A and B the general picture given by those witnesses who saw or heard SE-BDY is of it passing across the airport more or less in the direction in which it should have been heading, of it being at about 6,000 feet above sea level, perhaps a little lower, and of it going faster than aircraft usually went, which is probably explained by its being a larger type than was usual in this area. There were two witnesses, living to the west, who heard the aircraft passing over in what must have been a turn to the right. Mr. Bermant and Mrs. Wright. Both, from the sound, had an impression of low height. In so far as witnesses in Class B speak of some phenomenon in the sky they do not help in the discovery of the cause of the crash. Their evidence merely shows that there was a crash,
But none of these witnesses, and they are many; saw or heard any other aircraft at about the
time that SE-BDY passed over Ndola.

Class C, persons who speak of two aircraft at the same time, is dealt with later.

Class D comprises witnesses who saw or heard something long after the crash. Their evidence does not bear on causation. The same is of course true of any evidence which relates only to the later discovery of the crashed aircraft.

Local witnesses at Kolwezi have stated that the Fouga had never bean operated at night.

Up to approximately 2210 GMT on 17th September the pilot was in contact with Ndola tower and was acting and talking normally and the aircraft was seen and heard to be flying in a normal manner,
From that time on, for the remaining 5 minutes or so of the aircrafts flight, it was under observation by many police officers on duty and by three witnesses in particular, except for the last 20 or 30 seconds when SE-BDX apparently went below the line of’ vision of one of them who was standing on a fourth floor balcony.

“I see a transport plane coming low. All the lights are on. I’m going down to make a run on it. Yes, it’s the Transair DC6. It’s the plane.”

“I’ve hit it. There are flames. It’s going down. It’s crashing.”

13.17 David Doyle, who was in charge of the CIA’s Elisabethville base until April 1961, has recorded in a memoir how, not long after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in January 1961, he went to the airport at night to make what he described as a routine check-up, and found there a US-registered KC97 commercial Stratocruiser whose civilian crew were unloading three Fouga Magisters for delivery to Katanga “in direct violation,” Doyle wrote “of US policy”. The Fougas, although they were training planes, were armed.