Big air crash
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PRAGUE, Feb. 19. Between 60 and 70 people died when a Soviet Tuls4 airliner crashed on landing at Prague Airport today and burst into flames. The plane was thought to be already on fire as it approached its runway. But the pilot had not reported any emergency to the control tower. Most of the crew survived and the captain was seen at the airport walking with a bloody face. A wing was torn off the plane and it burst into fiames on impact. The Tuls4 was touching down at the end of a Hight from Moscow when it crashed at the beginning of the main runway. The trijet airbus came into service on the Moscow-Prague run last year.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33155, 20 February 1973, Page 1
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