[News Script: Plane Crash] Page: 1 of 2
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PLANE CRASH
FRANK LIVE:
A Soviet Ilytshin 18 airliner crashed today just
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was on a domestic flight to southern "LussiaK.
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moments after takeoff from Leningrad Airport. As
many as one hundred persons are believed to have
died when the plane plummeted to earth two miles
beyond the end of the runway. \ It is not known
whether any foreigners were aboard the craft which
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Plane Crash], script, April 27, 1974, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1968292/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.