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Surinam Airways Flight 764 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname on a Surinam Airways DC-8-62. On Wednesday, June 7, 1989, the flight crashed during approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij, killing 176 of the 187 on board. It is the deadliest aviation disaster in Suriname's history and the fifth-deadliest involving a DC-8 behind Icelandic Airlines Flight 001, Martinair Flight 138, Arrow Air Flight 1285, and Nigeria Airways Flight 2120.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surinam_Airways_Flight_764
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Coordinates:   5°27'13"N   55°13'49"W
This article was last modified 11 years ago