Martinair Flight 495 was a Dutch DC-10, registered PH-MBN, that crash-landed in severe weather conditions onto runway 28 at Faro Airport, Portugal, in 1992. The aircraft carried 13 crew members and 327 passengers, mainly holidaymakers from the Netherlands. Fifty-four passengers and 2 crew members died and 106 of the other occupants were badly injured.
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