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70 years on, remains from US plane crash in Malaysia head home

Shortly after World War II ended, three US airmen took off from Singapore aboard a military transport on a flight to an airfield in northern Malaysia that never arrived.

Nearly 70 years later, the presumed remains of the US service members finally headed home on Thursday following a sombre ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.

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