What the records say
- When
- 17 Mar 1960
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 37.91° N, 86.63° W
- Description
- 1960 aviation accident
- Deaths
- 63
Northwest Airlines Flight 710
1960 aviation accident in Indiana, US
Northwest Airlines Flight 710 was a scheduled flight between Minneapolis, Minnesota and Miami, Florida, with a stop in Chicago. On March 17, 1960, the six-month-old Lockheed L-188 Electra operating the flight broke up in midair in southern Indiana, near Cannelton, killing all 63 people on board.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 breaks up in flight and crashes near Tell City, Indiana, killing all 63 on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа L-188 под Каннелтоном”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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