Date in year · 1957 · The 1950s
On July 16, 1957, kLM Flight 844 crashes off the Schouten Islands in present day Indonesia (then Netherlands New Guinea), killing 58 people. Mukesh Ambani, Hervé Le Tellier, Herbert Wetterauer would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · July 16, 1957
2 kilometres from its departure airport. As a result, 58 out of 68 onboard perished. The flight was the first leg of a service with the ultimate destination of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Around 1957
1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
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1957 aviation accident
2 kilometres from its departure airport. As a result, 58 out of 68 onboard perished. The flight was the first leg of a service with the ultimate destination of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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