page_title: 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash
section_title: Incident
hierarchical_section_title: 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash / Incident
caption_attribution_description: English: Redrawn from map in Air Disaster Volume 4 by Macarthur Job and en:Image:Topography of africa.jpg by User:John. Depicts the flight paths of the two aircraft involved in the death of Dag Hammarskjold on 17 September 1961.
context_page_description: The Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash occurred on 18 September 1961 in Northern Rhodesia. The crash resulted in the deaths of all people onboard including Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 15 others. Hammarskjöld had been en route to cease-fire negotiations with Moise Tshombe during the Congo Crisis. Three official inquiries failed to determine conclusively the cause of the crash, which set off a succession crisis at the United Nations.
context_section_description: In September 1961, during the Congo Crisis, Hammarskjöld learned about fighting between "non-combatant" UN forces and Katangese troops of Moise Tshombe; on 18 September Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate a cease-fire when the aircraft he was flying in crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Hammarskjöld and fifteen others perished in the crash. The crash set off a succession crisis at the United Nations, as Hammarskjöld's death required the Security Council to vote on a successor.
caption: Flight path of Hammarskjöld's aircraft (pink line) and the decoy (black line), September 1961
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