A United Nations Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of the organisation's second Secretary General has placed the greatest value in claims Dag Hammarskjöld's plane was shot down at in an aerial attack in 1961. Hammarskjöld died along with 15 others on September 18th of that year in a plane crash in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia in what is now Zambia. The current UN Chief, Ban Ki Moon appointed a three member commission of inquiry earlier this year, after decades of speculation his predecessor's was shot down due to his peace efforts in the Congo region at the time