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1958 Aeroflot Tu-104 crash in Chuvash

1958 CE · Asia · Disaster

1958 Aeroflot Tu-104 crash in Chuvash
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The 1958 Aeroflot Tu-104 Kanash crash occurred on 17 October 1958 when a Tupolev Tu-104A operated by Aeroflot flying an international route from Beijing to Moscow crashed in bad weather near the town of Kanash, Chuvashia, Soviet Union, four hundred miles east of Moscow, killing all 80 people on board.

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