What the records say
- When
- 12 Feb 1963
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 25.56° N, 80.88° W
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 43
- Injured
- 0
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705
1963 aviation accident in Florida
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by a Boeing 707 on February 12, 1963, that broke up in midair and crashed into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami International Airport in a severe thunderstorm. The plane was destined for Portland, Oregon, via Chicago, Spokane, and Seattle.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа Boeing 720 в Эверглейдсе, погибли 43 человека”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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