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Galway City Council is to host a commemoration ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the KLM air crash on August 12.

The tragic story of the rescue attempts for a Dutch flight which crashed into the sea, west of the Galway coast will be told in a TG4 documentary this weekend.

Fifty years ago today, a Dutch KLM Super-Constellation airliner named Hugo De Groot crashed into the Atlantic, about 100 miles off the Conamara coast, with the loss of 99 lives. The plane was en route from Amsterdam via Shannon with eight crewmen and 91 passengers. Nobody survived. It was the worst disaster involving a single plane in the history of commercial aviation up to that point.