Military authorities here today established that a missing Czech plane carrying Jewish passengers from Prague to Israel crashed near Kalamata in the Peloponnesus. There is little hope that any of the passengers survived, they said.
Among the passengers were Erwin Diamant and Michael Kanner, members of the Maccabi presidium in Czechoslvakia, and Dr. Hans Rezek, deputy chief rabbi of Prague. Also on the plane were Samuel Rabinovits and Julius Kuperman of Brazil and their wives.
The military commander of the Peloponnesus area issued an order to Greek military units to search the region. The troops reported that the spot where the plane crashed is inaccessible.
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