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China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes in Rui'an, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
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China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509
1999 airplane crash in China
China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509 (SZ4509) was a domestic flight in China from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, Sichuan to Wenzhou Yongqiang Airport, Zhejiang. On February 24, 1999, the Tupolev Tu-154M operating the flight crashed while on approach to Wenzhou Airport,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tupolev Tu-154
Soviet and Russian medium-range trijet airliner
The Tupolev Tu-154 is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian airlines for several decades, it carried half of all passengers flown by Aeroflot and its…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Rui'an
County-level city in Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
Rui'an is a city in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. It has a population of 200,000 people and covers a land area of 1,271 km2 (491 sq mi), 3,037 km2 (1,173 sq mi) when including water area. Natives of the city speak the Rui'an dialect of Wu Chinese.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Zhejiang
Province of China
Zhejiang is a coastal province in East China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangsu and Shanghai to the north, Anhui to the northwest, Jiangxi to the west and Fujian to the south. To the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
February 24
Day of the year
February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 310 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)