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South African Airways Flight 228

123Fatalities
5Survivors
128On board

Accident details

What happened

A Boeing 707 crashes just after takeoff from Strijdom International Airport, Windhoek, South West Africa (now Namibia), due to pilot error; of the 128 on board, only five survive.

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