On 18 September 1961 , a UN charter flight carrying United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld crashed en route to land at Ndola Airport . Hammarskjöld and 15 others died in the crash . Although the cause of the crash has never been completely ascertained , it may have been caused by an aircraft attack . The crash site , 15 km west of the airport , has been turned into the Dag Hammarskjöld Crash Site Memorial
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1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash
Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport