Olympic Airways Flight 954 Mountain Crash Kills 90, December 8, 1969
Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
Date: December 8, 1969
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