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Stockport air disaster

72Fatalities
12Survivors
84On board

Accident details

What happened

A British Midland Canadair C-4 Argonaut carrying passengers returning from Palma de Mallorca is on approach to Manchester Airport when an engine loses power because of a design failure in the aircraft's fuel system; of the 84 passengers aboard, 72 were killed.

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