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Accidents - Disasters - Fires - Floods - Tragedies

Jul. 07, 1968 - Six people die in air crash. Six people were killed and six injured as an Elizabeth freighter of B k s, the independent airline, crashed on landing at Heathrow Airport yesterday, struck three parked Bea airliners and damasked into the wall of a passenger building under construction. the crash plane was returning eight brood mares and foals from Dauville, France, to stud farms in the south of England, the plane's crew of three and three grooms on board died. All the horse were killed or had to be destroyed. photo shows The wrecked Elizabeth airliner resting against the back of the new $ 5 million terminal one building at Heathrow airport yesterday

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