What the records say
- When
- 30 May 1947
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 39.61° N, 76.07° W
- Description
- 1947 aviation accident in the United States
- Deaths
- 53
Eastern Air Lines Flight 605
1947 aviation accident
Eastern Air Lines Flight 605 was a domestic flight in the US from Newark to Miami on May 30, 1947. The flight crashed near Bainbridge, Maryland, causing the deaths of all 53 passengers and crew on board in what was then the worst disaster in the history of North American commercial aviation.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Eastern Air Lines Flight 605: A Douglas C-54 Skymaster crashes near Bainbridge, Maryland, killing all 53 aboard (49 passengers, 4 crew)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа C-54 под Бейнбриджем, погибли 53 человека”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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