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March 27, 1977: Bombing at Spanish airport leads to fatal crash

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date March 27, 2022
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Wreckage of one of the planes involved in the crash (Photo: By Unknown; the Dutch National Archives, CC0, Wikimedia Commons)

On March 27, 1977 a bomb exploded at an airport in the Canary Islands, wounding only one but leading to the single largest airliner accident in history.

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