<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ČSA_Flight_540" id="mwAR0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ČSA Flight 540">ČSA Flight 540</a> crashes on approach to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_International_Airport" id="mwAR4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Damascus International Airport">Damascus International Airport</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus" id="mwAR8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Damascus">Damascus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" id="mwASA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Syria">Syria</a>, killing 126 people.<sup about="#mwt51" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_20#cite_note-8" id="mwASE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASI">[8]</span></a></sup>
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