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Fifty years ago Turkish plane crash

ISPARTA (Turkey): A Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 on a flight from Italy to the Turkish Mediterranean resort of Antalya crashed late last night and all 154 passengers and crew aboard were feared dead, officials said today [Sept 20]. Transport Minister Nahit Mentese said 125 of the 147 passengers ... were foreigners, mostly Italian and German. Kemal Ziya Ozturk, an independent Deputy and former Vice-President of the National Assembly, was among [those] killed... . ... The Transport Minister said the last word from the pilot was that he was descending from 13,000 feet to 12,000 feet. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from New Delhi], the lifting of Press censorship for foreign correspondents in India, as well as relaxing of restrictions on the local Press, hardly means a return to complete freedom of the Press. The Indian Government still retains the power to clamp down ... on foreign reporters, according to interpretations in political circles of Information Minister V.C. Shukla’s surprise announcement yesterday [Sept 19]. Mr Shukla told foreign correspondents ... that there would be no pre-censorship of their reports... . But [he said] ... the office of the censor would continue... .