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Vallende Vlieger Memorial Aarsele

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    October 23, 2024

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    The crash in Aarsele was the second and to date last disaster with a passenger plane on Belgian territory. Ten years earlier, all 73 occupants of a Boeing 707-329 on a Sabena flight from New York to Brussels had died in a crash in Berg-Kampenhout.
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    October 23, 2024

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    There are two memorials:
    The gravestone in the cemetery with the names of the victims and the monument at the church.
    The latter was unveiled on Saturday 2 October 2021. 'De Vallende Vlieger' was made by the Aarselese artist Boudewijn Callewaert. It is a monument full of symbolism. It represents the tail of the Vanguard.
    Source: hangarflying.eu/erfgoedsites/monument-voor-slachtoffers-vliegramp-vickers-vanguard-g-apec-in-aarsele
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    February 28, 2023

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    The Aarsele plane crash is an aircraft accident in Belgium that occurred on Saturday 2 October 1971. All 63 people on board were killed in the disaster.

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    At 09:34 GMT, the international scheduled flight BEA 706 took off from London Heathrow Airport (United Kingdom) with destination Salzburg (Austria). The aircraft, a Vickers-Vanguard, type 951, registered under the number G-APEC and built in 1959 by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd of the United Kingdom, had been in service with the airline British European Airways (BEA) since 1961.
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