DISASTERS: Look Up in Horror

Flying at 29,000 ft. near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, last week, Lufthansa Pilot Josef Kröse chanced to glance above him. There he saw a scene that caused him to stare in disbelief. Four thousand feet overhead, at the same altitude, two other jetliners were closing fast from opposite directions. As Kröse looked on in horror, the planes smashed head-on into each other. They immediately fell from the sky in battered pieces of wreckage that landed twelve miles apart; at least one woman, working on her farm, was killed by the debris. After reassembling corpses, which were strewn all over the broad...

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