A plane with 51 displaced Jewish immigrants and three crew members aboard was reported here today to be missing on a flight between Munich and Israel. The announcement vas made by a representative of the Great Circle Airways which operates the Munich-Israel immigration shuttle.
A message received here later in the day from the plane reported that all the passengers are uninjured and that the piano was forced down, probably in Yugoslavia. The message said: “We are O.K. forced down. Think in Yugoslavia.”
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