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Pan Am 707 Crash Kills Six at Calcutta Airport
Witnesses said the Pan Am 707 was flying low before it overshot a runway by an eighth of a mile in a monsoon squall at Dum Dum Airport Calcutta. The jet burned after the impact killing six of 63 aboard with dozens injured and several uninjured per Pan Am figures.
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