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Malév Flight 240



Flight 240, was a Tupolev Tu-154 tri-motor jetliner of the Malév Hungarian Airlines, which was flying on the Budapest to Beirut regular route when it was shot down near the Lebanese shoreline on 30 September 1975. There were a crew of ten Hungarians and fifty passengers on-board, some of them from Scandinavia with only a single Hungarian traveler, there were also Palestinians, Lebanese and a Dutchman traveling.



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