A mysterious 1961 plane crash in Morocco remains one of aviation's unsolved tragedies

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A mysterious 1961 plane crash in Morocco remains one of aviation's unsolved tragedies

In 1961, a Czechoslovakian airliner plunged from the sky near Casablanca, killing everyone on board and leaving investigators with a mystery that remains unsolved over sixty years later.

CSA Flight 511 was cruising toward Rabat, Morocco, on July 12, 1961, when it suddenly crashed into the ground just eight miles from the airport. All 72 people on board perished in the wreckage.

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