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This Day 53 Years Ago: The Boeing 737 Vanished Into A Delhi Storm – Then Struck Power Lines Just Seconds Before Landing. Why Did An Airworthy Flight Claim 48 Lives?
On the night of May 31, 1973, Indian Airlines Flight 440 was only moments away from completing a routine domestic journey from Madras (now Chennai) to New Delhi. Instead, the Boeing 737-200 named *Saranga* disappeared into a wall of dust, rain, and darkness, becoming one of India’s earliest major jetliner disasters. Flight IC440 departed Madras…
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