What the records say
- When
- 24 Jun 1975
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 40.65° N, 73.75° W
- Description
- 1975 aviation accident
- Deaths
- 113
- Injured
- 11
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66
1975 aviation accident in New York
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 was a regularly scheduled flight from New Orleans to New York City that crashed on June 24, 1975, when a Boeing 727-225 went on approach to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing 113 of the 124 people on board.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа Boeing 727 в Нью-Йорке, 113 погибших”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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