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LV-JTN_1972-10-06_MUC_1290_MK

 

Photo taken by Manfred Kaffine and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

1972-10-06 (6 October 1972)

 

LV-JTN

Canadair CL-44D4-6

34

Transporte Aereo Rioplatense (TAR)

 

LV-JTN is parked in front of Lufthansa’s maintenance hangar at Riem. Sister ship LV-JZM was noted at Riem a week later, on 14 October 1972.

 

First flight 27 August 1962. Delivered to Slick Airways as N605SA on 17 October 1962. To Airlift International on 1 July 1966. Leased to Trans Mediterranean Airways between November 1967 and November 1969. Sold to Transporte Aereo Rioplatense on 1 March 1971. Crashed after mid air collision with Soviet interceptor, 50 km from Yerevan, USSR, on 18 July 1981.

 

Detailed history of this airframe:

www.cl44.com/cl44/prodlist/serial34.htm

 

Wikipedia article on the 1981 mid-air collision:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Armenia_mid-air_collision

 

This airframe as N605SA with Slick Airways at SFO in November 1965:

www.airhistory.net/photo/400556/N605SA

 

N605SA with Airlift International at MIA ca. 1966:

photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-f6xqfFj/0/X2/i-f6xqfFj-X2.jpg

 

N605SA leased to TMA ca. 1969:

geta-o.jp/CIVIL/CANADA/BOMBARDIER/CANADAIR/CL44/N605sa(tl)cl44-0564.jpg

 

LV-JTN with TAR at MXP in March 1978 (full view):

www.flickr.com/photos/145798423@N07/50804554892

 

 

Scan from Kodak medium format (6 x 6 cm) slide (cropped to 3:2 aspect ratio)

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