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Hi,
I think unusually severe Mountain Wake Turbluence caused a BOAC 707 ( flight 911) to break up close to Mt Fuji in Japan back in 1966 but do not recall any other incidents of turbulence causing a disaster (windshear/microbursts excluded)
Regards
TBS