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Aeroflot Flight 558

1972 CE · Asia · Disaster

Aeroflot Flight 558
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Aeroflot Flight 558 was a scheduled Ilyushin Il-18V domestic passenger flight from Karaganda to Moscow that crashed into a field in the Abzelilovsky District on August 31st 1972 as a result of a fire stemming from exploded passenger baggage, killing all 102 people on board.

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