Air Disaster

11th October 1979: The wreckage of a Swissair DC-8 which skidded at the end of the runway at Athens airport and burst into flames, killing fourteen passengers and hospitalising thirty others. The aircraft had arrived from Switzerland en route to Peking. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
11th October 1979: The wreckage of a Swissair DC-8 which skidded at the end of the runway at Athens airport and burst into flames, killing fourteen passengers and hospitalising thirty others. The aircraft had arrived from Switzerland en route to Peking. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Air Disaster
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Credit:
Keystone / Stringer
Editorial #:
3172135
Collection:
Hulton Archive
Date created:
11 October, 1979
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Source:
Hulton Archive
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JI1420
Object name:
00t/19/HUTY/14626/08
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