What the records say
- When
- 9 Sep 1969
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 39.62° N, 85.92° W
- Description
- aviation accident on September 9, 1969 near Fairland, Indiana
- Deaths
- 83
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853
1969 mid-air collision in Indiana
On September 9, 1969, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating a regularly scheduled flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to St. Louis, Missouri, with stops in Baltimore, Maryland; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Indianapolis, Indiana, collided mid-air with a Piper PA-28 light aircraft near Fairland, Indiana.
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- 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 “Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a DC-9 airliner, collides in flight with a small Piper PA-28 airplane, and crashes near Fairland, Indiana”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Над Индианаполисом столкнулись самолёты McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 авиакомпании Allegheny Airlines и частный Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee, погибли 83 человека”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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