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Vickers Viscount 745D, Capital Airlines JP7167210
A Capital Airlines Vickers Viscount similar to the one which crashed.

Capital Airlines Flight 20 was a U.S. airplane flight from Washington, D.C. to Norfolk, Virginia. The airplane that was flying was a Vickers Viscount.

Accident

When the airplane was flying, it had 4 engines, but it was very cold, so outside the airplane started to turn to ice, then two of the engines stopped working, then after awhile the other two engines stopped working. After the plane crashed, everyone died.

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