1972 Svetlogorsk An-24 crash

Name: 1972 Svetlogorsk An-24 crash
Start: 1972-05-16

16 May 1972 · 54.94° N, 20.16° E

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When: 16 May 1972
Kind: Air disaster
Coordinates: 54.94° N, 20.16° E
Description: aviation incident in the Soviet Union
Deaths: 35
Injured: 2

1972 Svetlogorsk Antonov An-24 crash

Soviet Navy aircraft crash

A Soviet Navy Antonov An-24 aircraft crashed into a kindergarten building in Svetlogorsk in Kaliningrad Oblast in the Soviet Union on 16 May 1972. The crash killed all eight people aboard the plane and 25 to 27 people on the ground, most of them children at a kindergarten.

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1972 Svetlogorsk Antonov An-24 crash

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