When planes have to land on water in an emergency, it’s an extremely rare and dangerous situation. It takes a skilled pilot and just the right conditions. But what’s worse is when the aircraft just falls apart after ditching!  

It was August 21, 1963 when the then-Soviet airline Aeroflot was about to perform its regular flight from Tallinn, Estonia to Moscow. There were 45 passengers and 7 crew members onboard the aircraft. What happened to them went down in history ... 

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