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Aeroflot Flight 411

1982 CE · Europe · Disaster

Aeroflot Flight 411
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Aeroflot Flight 411 was a scheduled flight from Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, Soviet Union, to Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a stopover at Dakar-Yoff International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. On 6 July 1982, the Ilyushin Il-62 flying this route crashed and was destroyed by fire after two engines were shut down shortly after take-off.

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