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On November 21, 1973, the American plane C-47 SkyTrain made an emergency landing on the beach south of Iceland due to bad weather and fuel shortages.
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A stormy night ended dramatically for the crew of a British trawler on March 13, 1948. Their ship crashed off the rocky coast of Dritvik in western Iceland.
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