The European headquarters of the Youth Aliyah movement today gave up hope for the survival of some 30 Jewish DP children aboard a long-overdue Oslo-bound plane which was believed to have crashed and burned in Norway yesterday.
(At The Hague, officials of Aero Holland, which owns the missing Dutch DC-3, confirmed that there was no hope of the plans having survived. The airline officials said that there were 29 children, two nurses and four crew members aboard.)
Fritz Lichtenstein, head of the Youth Aliyah office here, flew today to Oslo in connection with the disaster. He said that one of the nurses aboard was probably an official of the Norwegian Relief for Europe organization. Reports from Oslo said that troops, police and civilians were continuing the search for the missing plane today. They have been joined by Swedish, Danish and Dutch planes.
The children were proceeding from Morocco to Norway where they were scheduled to spend eight months receiving medical care and instruction before going to Israel. A second plane, with a similar number of children aboard, landed at the Oslo airport safely last night. The last point at which the planes touched down before the hop to Oslo was Brussels.
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