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Today in History: Uganda Airlines Flight 775 Crashes in Rome

2026-10-17T09:22:42.000Z

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Thirty-three people died when a Uganda Airlines Boeing 707 crashed in dense fog while attempting to land at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport on October 17, 1988, with 19 people surviving the disaster.

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