All 55 people on board <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_537" id="mwAU8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eastern Air Lines Flight 537">Eastern Air Lines Flight 537</a> are killed when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-4" id="mwAVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Douglas DC-4">Douglas DC-4</a> operating the flight <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_collision" id="mwAVE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mid-air collision">collides in mid-air</a> with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_Air_Force" id="mwAVI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bolivian Air Force">Bolivian Air Force</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning" id="mwAVM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lockheed P-38 Lightning">Lockheed P-38 Lightning</a> aircraft over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia" id="mwAVQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alexandria, Virginia">Alexandria, Virginia</a>.<sup about="#mwt37" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_1#cite_note-5" id="mwAVU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAVY">[5]</span></a></sup>
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