What the records say
- When
- 16 Jul 1983
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 49.92° N, 6.25° W
- Description
- 1983 aviation accident in the southern Celtic Sea
- Deaths
- 20
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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