Boeing 707 Crashes Outside Brussels 1961

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Brussels, Belgium

Various shots of the debris of the Boeing 707 which crashed just outside Brussels Airport with the loss of 73 lives also shots of bodies being carried away on stretchers, and of stretchers being laid out side by side. (Mute F.G.)

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Cataloguer:
James
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
85994
Sort Number:
UN 3449 F
Time in/Out:
01:27:58:00 / 01:29:11:00
Canister:
UN 3449 F
Film ID:
3006.11
Issue Date:
1961

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