Event
East German balloon escape: Two families flee from East Germany by balloon
16 Sep 1979 · 50.48° N, 11.59° E
What the records say
- When
- 16 Sep 1979
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 50.48° N, 11.59° E
- Description
- East German balloon escape: Two families flee from East Germany by balloon.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, East Germany balloon escape.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Zwei Familien gelingt mit einem selbstgebauten Heißluftballon eine spektakuläre Ballonflucht aus der DDR in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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