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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2245

(x) South Africa
Later Crashes
1974 (20 Nov.) Lufthansa Nairobi Crash
1974 (15 Nov.) envelope from Greece to Port Elizabeth, showing "retrieved from air crash on 20/november 1974 at nairobi" bi-lingual cachet and with South Africa "Found open or damaged....." bi-lingual tape tied by Port Elizabeth datestamp (5.12). Nierinck 741120a

Note: Lufthansa flight 540 from Frankfurt to Johannesburg crashed on take-off from Nairobi Embakasi Airport. The aircraft was completely destroyed by fire and there were 61 fatalities. Investigation determined that the cause of the crash was a low altitude stall precipitated by pilot error

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