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198:"OK-DBP" was an international scheduled passenger flight from
531:"Als es 1956 in Wasterkingen Uhren vom Himmel regnete"
477:"Crash of an Ilyushin Il-12B in Eglisau: 23 killed"
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370:Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team
33:1956 Wasterkingen Ilyushin Il-12 plane crash
432:"Die schwersten Flugunfälle in der Schweiz"
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