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Lost Over the Desert: UTA Flight 772's Tragic End
UTA Flight 772, a French passenger flight travelling from Brazzaville in the Congo to Paris, France, via N'Djamena, Chad, tragically crashed, on September 19, 1989, into the Ténéré desert near Bilma, Niger. This catastro...
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3- 1989 A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew.
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