What the records say
- When
- 20 May 1965
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 30.12° N, 31.41° E
- Description
- 1965 plane crash of a Boeing 720-040B; deadliest Boeing 720 accident
- Deaths
- 121
- Injured
- 6
- Participants
- 127
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа Boeing 720 под Каиром – крупнейшая в истории самолётов данного типа (121 погибший)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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