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There is little official information about the crash of Flight 240, no passenger list, no black box, no conversation between the plane and Lebanese air traffic control. There are theories about a downed plane and suspicious cargo, and it is possible that the truth lies among the contemnors.
Malév Flight 240: The Forgotten Tragedy Reconsidered - Hungarian Conservative
Exactly 50 years ago, on 30 September 1975, Malév Flight 240—a scheduled Budapest–Beirut flight—crashed near the coast of Lebanon. As is known, all 50 passengers and the ten crew members on board lost their lives in the tragedy, the causes of which remain the subject of speculation to this day. Although the daily press occasionally publishes articles on the topic, with varying degrees of depth, no historical study has yet been written about it. …
On September 30, 1975, a Malév Tu-154 plane with sixty passengers was destroyed off the coast of Beirut. The official cause of the accident is still unknown. It is certain that the plane was destroyed, but we do not know by whom. The authorities continued to obstruct the investigation of the circumstances even after the change of regime.
On the day exactly 50 years ago, a Tu-154 of the state Hungarian Malev disappeared a few minutes before the landing in Beirut. At that time a violent civil war raged in the country. Neither Lebanon nor Hungary have ever recovered the wreck or the flight recorders of the disaster machine. What happened to the corpses of the inmates is also state secret. Today, in the Aeropark in Budapest, former Malev employees and members of the crew of the heav…
Sixty people lost their lives on September 30, 1975, when a Malév plane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea as it was preparing to land. To this day, it is unknown what happened. In the 2000s, there was talk of raising the plane and identifying and bringing home the victims buried in the mass grave, including 11 Hungarians. To this day, there is no solution to the worst disaster in Hungarian aviation. Fifty years ago, on September 30, 1975, a Mal…
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