Gander Crash 16Dec83 [View all]

I remember this. One of the major newspaper had a front page black and white drawing. With the 101st patch with a tear.

A lot of the single guys gave up their seats. It was the first flight home and they gave them to the ones with families.

Arrow Air Flight 1285R was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 jetliner that operated as an international charter flight carrying U.S. troops from Cairo, Egypt, to their home base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, via Cologne, West Germany, and Gander, Newfoundland.

On the morning of Thursday, 12 December 1985, shortly after takeoff from Gander en route to Fort Campbell, the aircraft stalled, crashed, and burned about half a mile from the runway, killing all 248 passengers and 8 crew members on board.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Air_Flight_1285




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