What the records say
- When
- 24 Aug 1965
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 22.32° N, 114.20° E
- Description
- plane crash in Hong Kong
- Deaths
- 59
Placed at the middle of the 2 places Wikidata lists.
1965 Hong Kong USMC KC-130F crash
Plane crash in Hong Kong
A United States Marines Corps (USMC) Lockheed KC-130F Hercules, ferrying a group of US marines back to South Vietnam from rest-and-relaxation leave in then-British Hong Kong, crashed on take-off, causing a total of 59 deaths out of the 71 people on board the aircraft on August 24, 1965.
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