Body Found in Search for Downed U.S., German Planes
WINDHOEK, Namibia — Officials investigating a suspected midair collision off Namibia between German and U.S. military planes said Thursday that they had identified the only victim found so far.
The body of German flight attendant Saskia Neumeyer, 43, was found Tuesday in the waters off the Skeleton Coast of this southern African nation.
Neumeyer was one of 24 people on board the German Tupolev 154, which is believed to have collided Saturday with a U.S. C-141 military plane carrying nine people over the south Atlantic.
The planes collided while flying in opposite directions--the Tupolev from Germany to South Africa, the C-141 from Namibia to Ascension Island in the Atlantic.
An international air and sea search operation that began off the Skeleton Coast on Sunday has found wreckage from both planes.
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