KLM Flight 844 Crashes Off Schouten Islands, 58 Killed July 16, 1957
KLM Flight 844 crashes off the Schouten Islands in present day Indonesia (then Netherlands New Guinea), killing 58 people.
Date: July 16, 1957
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