Mercury Airways
Disaster
When a Mercury Airways
DC-3 struck a mountain
en route from Durban
to Johannesburg on
May 15, 1948 all 13 on
board died, including
young stewardess Paula
Rauch. Here, on the
70th anniversary of the
disaster, her nephew
Bruce Campbell recounts
his very personal visit to
the crash site.ersonal ribute
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Bruce Campbell at
the site of the crash,
during his very
personal pilgrimage.