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- 1974_Togo_plane_crash abstract "The 1974 Togo plane crash refers to an incident on 24 January 1974, when a Togo Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain:5V-MAG carrying several notable political figures crashed at an isolated location near the village of Sarakawa in northern Togo. Gnassingbé Eyadéma, the President of Togo, was on board the plane, which was flying from Lomé to his native village, Pya when, on its descent, it crashed near Sarakawa. Eyadéma survived, but his French pilot and three other passengers died.Eyadéma claimed the French had sabotaged the plane after he had reneged on an agreement with a French company over the use of a phosphate mine. Eyadéma attributed his survival to mystical powers and declared January 24 to be "Economic Liberation Day." Eyadéma even changed his first name from Étienne to Gnassingbé to remember the date of the day he survived the crash.Following the incident, a monument was established by the Togolese government near the crash site. The monument depicts Eyadéma standing tall on top with the photographs of his generals at the side who died in the crash.In reality, he was not the sole survivor of the crash on January 24, 1974. There were other survivors, but he deliberately misrepresented the details of the accident to make himself look like a hero with superhuman strength who miraculously survived the disaster when everyone else was killed. Eyadéma claimed that the crash was not an accident and was in fact a conspiracy to kill him, plotted by imperialists who did not like his plan (announced on January 10, 1974) to nationalize the important phosphate mining company, the Compagnie Togolaise des Mines du Bénin (CTMB or Cotomib). His C-47 was replaced by a new presidential jet, Gulfstream II, which was again damaged beyond repair in a fatal accident in the same year. Eyadéma was not on board this time.".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash thumbnail 1974Togocrashsite.jpg?width=300.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash wikiPageID "20808221".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash wikiPageRevisionID "604129463".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash aircraftType Douglas_C-47_Skytrain.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash crew "1".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash date "1974-01-24".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash destination "Pya, Togo".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash fatalities "4".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash hasPhotoCollection 1974_Togo_plane_crash.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash injuries "1".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash name "1974".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash occurrenceType "Accident".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash operator Military_of_Togo.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash origin "Lomé, Togo".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash passengers "4".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash site "Near Sarakawa, Togo".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash survivors "1".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash subject Category:1974_in_Togo.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash subject Category:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_1974.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash subject Category:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_Togo.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash subject Category:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_involving_state_leaders.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash comment "The 1974 Togo plane crash refers to an incident on 24 January 1974, when a Togo Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain:5V-MAG carrying several notable political figures crashed at an isolated location near the village of Sarakawa in northern Togo. Gnassingbé Eyadéma, the President of Togo, was on board the plane, which was flying from Lomé to his native village, Pya when, on its descent, it crashed near Sarakawa.".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash label "1974 Togo plane crash".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash label "Catastrophe aérienne de Sarakawa".
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash sameAs Catastrophe_aérienne_de_Sarakawa.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash sameAs m.0580y5n.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash sameAs Q2941687.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash sameAs Q2941687.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash wasDerivedFrom 1974_Togo_plane_crash?oldid=604129463.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash depiction 1974Togocrashsite.jpg.
- 1974_Togo_plane_crash isPrimaryTopicOf 1974_Togo_plane_crash.