What the records say
- When
- 30 Sep 1975
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 35.91° N, 26.24° E
- Description
- 1975 aviation incident
- Deaths
- 60
Placed at the middle of the 2 places Wikidata lists.
Malév Flight 240
1975 aviation incident
Malév Flight 240 was a regular service from Budapest Ferihegy International Airport, Hungary, to Beirut International Airport, Lebanon. On 30 September 1975, the aircraft operating the route, a Tupolev Tu-154 of Malév Hungarian Airlines, went missing on its final approach for landing in the Mediterranean Sea just off the coast of Lebanon. All fifty passengers and ten crew on board are thought to have been killed.
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