Port Elizabeth of Yore: What Happened to the Rietbok?

On Monday 13th March 1967, a Vickers Viscount 818, on a scheduled fight from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg, via East London and Bloemfontein, crashed into the sea somewhere off Kayser’s Beach, near East London. 

What train of events was the cause of this crash? Why did twenty passengers and five crew vanish without a trace?

Main picture: Vickers Viscount 818

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