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On July 27, 1955, an El Al plane carrying over 51 passengers and seven crew members was shot down by two fighter jets belonging to the Bulgarian air force; shortly after it went off course and made it into western Bulgaria. All on board were killed.
LY-402, the Israeli weekly flight from London to Tel Aviv, left Heathrow Airport on Tuesday, July 26, 1955, heading towards today’s Ben-Gurion International Airport via Vienna and Istanbul. After a layover at the Austrian capital, the four-engine propeller plane took off for Istanbul shortly before 3 A.M. on July 27.
Read more: This Day In History: El Al Flight 402 Shot Down By Bulgarian Fighter-Jets In 1955