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Kaleva

1940 CE · Europe · Disaster

Kaleva
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Kaleva was a civilian Junkers Ju 52 passenger airplane belonging to the Finnish carrier Aero O/Y. On June 14, 1940, as Flight 1631 from Tallinn in Estonia to Helsinki in Finland, it was shot down over the Gulf of Finland by two combat aircraft of Soviet Naval Aviation and downed near the Estonian island of Keri, killing all nine on board.

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