On 23 July 1969 a four engined turbo-prop aircraft of Aeroflot airlines, an Antonov 12, landed at Geneva airport. The plane was chartered by CERN to carry experimental equipment (including a Cherenkov differential counter and other particle detectors) back from the first joint experiment between CERN and Soviet scientists at the 76 GeV proton synchrotron at Serpukhov.
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