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425 DX News issue #1391

DXCC prefix: EI - Ireland

Special event station EI50AOM will be active in January-March to memorialize the tragedy of Aer Lingus Flight 712 (tail-number EI-AOM), which crashed en route from Cork to London on 24 March 1968 killing all passengers and crew. The station will devote one day beginning 22 January to remember each of the 61 persons who died, with operations culminating on the fiftieth anniversary of the crash. This is still the largest single loss of life in Irish civil aviation history. QSL via EI2KA, direct or bureau, and LoTW.

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