Linonghin is a village in the Kogho Department of Ganzourgou Province in central Burkina Faso.Burkinabé government inforoute communale
On August 11, 1974, Linonghin was the site of Burkina Faso's deadliest airliner crash. An Ilyushin Il-18V of Air Mali that had diverted to Ouagadougou on a flight to Niamey began circling the wrong town and made a forced landing after running out of fuel. 47 of the 60 on board were killed.
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