1966 Air Crash Research Help Needed Please

[Titanicfan]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to find information on behalf of someone about their relation who was a passenger and was killed in the Britannia Airways crash on the 1st September 1966 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. I wondered where would be the best place for me to find a report on the list of passengers killed on the flight; and also I want to try to order the death certificate and wondered if I should search the overseas death index or consular death index? Any advice would be most welcomed. Thank you.

[David Tuson]

Below is what I found on Wikipedia when I Googled the crash - there are some references that may be a help to you. Apologies for the strange format but I simply copied and pasted into this reply.

Britannia Airways Flight 105 was a scheduled passenger flight from London Luton Airport for a flight to Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (known as Brnik Airport at that time). The flight was operated by Bristol Britannia G-ANBB with 110 passengers and seven crew on board. The aircraft crash occurred on 1 September 1966 at 00:47 during the approach, when the aircraft struck trees[2] in the woods between Lahovče[3] and Nasovče[4] under cloudy conditions.[5] Ninety-eight of the 117 passengers and crew died in the accident.[2] The reason cited for the accident was a wrong setting of the altimeter.[6]
References

Slovenia since 1991.
"The Britannia aircraft approached Ljubljana runway 31 at night when it crashed into trees". Aviation-safety.net. 22 April 1966. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
"Največja letalska nesreča pri nas." 1966. Kamniški občan 5(5): 15. (in Slovene)
"Letalske nesreče pod drobnogledom." (in Slovene)
"95 Persons Perish As British Airliner Crashes in Yugoslavia". Indiana Evening Gazette. 1 September 1966. p. 3. Retrieved 13 August 2014 – via Newspapers.com. open access publication – free to read
"Altimeter setting in doubt at Ljubljana". Flight International. Vol. 94 no. 3105. 12 September 1968. pp. 397–398.

[Peter Goodey]

For the full story, spend a day at the National Archives (or tell your friend to) and browse the official reports

https://discovery.nationalarchives.go...ro=any&_st=adv

For news stories (including passenger names) use the Times Digital Archive - readily available free of charge through most public library services.

The Times of Friday, Sep 02, 1966 has a report of the crash on the front page and a list of passengers and crew on page 15. No doubt the list is refined in subsequent issues.

[Titanicfan]

Thank you, David and Peter for your very helpful replies.

[David Tuson]

Thank you, David and Peter for your very helpful replies.

You are very welcome. I used to have a series of aviation books dealing with airline crashes but sold them a few years ago when I became more interested in family history research.
If you want to add some "meat" to the story have a look at this web site:
https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=19660901-0

Also try putting the following inside inverted commas in the Google search option - I got a few links to sites dealing with the crash including a YouTube video clip.

"Britannia Airways crash on the 1st September 1966 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia"

David