19th anniversary of birgenair flight 301 crash

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today is the 19th anniversary of a plane crash in POP that took the lives of 189 people. just minutes after the take off on the 6th of february 1996 the plane fell into the ocean. 167 of the victims were germans, 11 were from turkey, 9 from poland and 2 from DR.
article from local news commemorating the event: Se cumplen 19 a?os de tragedia a?rea donde murieron 189 personas en las costas de Puerto Plata - Noticias POP
link to wiki: Birgenair Flight 301 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

rest in peace.