Word: 2000â
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...collided?incredibly?on the ground. Taking off down a runway visible for less than a sixth of its length, KLM 4805 (the Rhine River) smashed into Pan American 1736 (the Clipper Victor), taxiing toward the same takeoff point. Roaring at full power, the KLM's hot engines (2000?? F.) and massive landing gear crunched through the Pan Am's fuselage with such impact and explosive fire that aluminum and steel parts of both planes were vaporized. The KLM's giant engine airlets sucked fragments of the Pan Am jet into its innards before crumpling into a molten mass...
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