1936 KLM Croydon accident
1936 aviation accident
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The 1936 KLM Croydon accident was the crash of a KLM airliner on 9 December 1936, shortly after taking off from the Croydon Air Port (as it was known at the time) on a scheduled flight to Amsterdam, Netherlands. The aircraft was destroyed and 15 of the 17 passengers and crew on board died as a result of the accident. Three of the passengers who died were Arvid Lindman, a former Prime Minister of Sweden, Magnus Wegelius, a Finnish athlete, and Juan de la Cierva, the Spanish inventor of the autogyro.
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