Deadliest Aviation Accident In History
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Pan Am Flight - The K L M Flight
The pilots on the cal m flight, they rotated early, trying to take off, which caused the nose to rise and it caused a 72 foot long tail strike. So becasl they tried to pull up, and they just started dragging their tail along the runway. All 200, forty eight people on the k l m flight died, as did 335 of those on the panam flight. Out of everyone on both planes, there were only 61 survivors.
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