Spanair Mass Televised in Spain

Today–18:00 GMT Thursday–was the funeral Mass in Madrid remembering the Aug. 20 Spanair Flight JK5022 crash victims. Only eighteen people survived the crash. The service was presided over by Madrid’s Archbishop, Antonio Maria Rouco Varela and on national television. Only 18 of 172 passengers survived. Spanish King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will be among the mourners. Ironically, the plane crashed on it’s second attempt at takeoff, and the mass is the second attempt. (The Sept 1 original date was cancelled because all of the victims had not yet been identified.)

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    Helicopter Crashes in Washington park

    What: American Eurocopter Dauphin II
    Where: Helicopter left its hanger at Andrews Air Force Base. suburban Washington park in a wooded area of Walker Mill Regional Park off of Ritchie Road.
    When: Sunday
    Who: Killed in the crash besides Bunker were Trooper First Class Mickey Lippy, EMT-B Tonya Mallard of the Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department and Ashley Younger, a 17-year-old who was the second victim from the Waldorf car accident.
    Why: The helicopter was transporting car crash victims to the hospital. One eighteen year old crash victim survived both the car crash and the helicopter crash, and was transported to the hospital in critical condition.

    On the twenty-five mile trip from the traffic accident to the hospital the flight was diverted due to bad weather. On approach to the runway, the pilot radioed that he was having trouble assessing his surroundings. Under deteriorating weather conditions, the pilot had requested an instrument approach and reported problems “capturing the glide slope”. The glide slope is the part of the instrument landing system that helps keep the aircraft at the proper altitude during the approach. It appears the helicopter first hit a tree at about 80 feet above the ground. The chopper landed on its left side with a tree crashing down on top of the helicopter.

    Accident victim Jordan Wells, 18, survived the crash and is at a hospital in critical condition

    The law enforcement agency’s helicopter fleet has been grounded until further notice.


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    Tuesday Poland Remembered

    As activists chanted anti-government slogans, on April 10, 2012, Poland remembered the crash that wiped out 96 Russians. Memorials were placed in Warsaw at the Presidential Palace and in Smolensk, Russia, where the crash wiped out dozens of top Polish civilian and military leaders.

    Investigations concluded the crash was due to bad weather, inadequate crew training and poor guidance from Russian air traffic controllers. Some say that the disaster was not properly investigated and others say it was a deliberate assassination.

    The wreckage remains in Smolensk, and according to reports was only recently covered by a tarp to protect it from the elements.

    Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the late president and leader of Poland’s Law and Justice party, boycotted the state ceremonies. He believes the disaster was inadequately investigated and that the state findings were in error.

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    Air France, Providing an Example

    Air France


    For the last ten years, the victims families of the Air France 4590 Concorde crash have been provided memorials arranged by Air France.

    Air France continues that tradition by providing two anniversary memorial services for Air France Flight 447 victims, one in Rio de Janeiro for 100 participants, and one in Paris for 400 participants. Air France is providing transportation and facilities for the memorials and reunions.

    The glass monument recalling the victims was placed in Leblon (Rio); it has 228 swallows etched into it, each representing someone who died aboard the flight.

    Air India Express


    There was also a monument placed in Kenjar, India of six scribed granite slabs remembering 158 people killed in the May 22 Air India Express crash, but it was vandalized in October of 2010. One tragedy compounded by a senseless act of malicious mischief.

    Air Blue


    Where is the memorial to the 152 victims of Air Blue Flight 202? Airblue management promised that the names of 19 whose bodies were consigned to a communal grave would be scribed on a monument. Where is this monument?

    Where is the monument to all the 152 victims, Airblue?

    Where will you be holding the anniversary service on July 28?

    As the homemade cardboard tribute says “Sympathy is no substitute for action.”

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    Flydubai Flight FZ-981 Crash: Monument to Commemorate Victims Unveiled in Russia

    One year after Flydubai flight FZ-981 crashed at Rostov-on-Don airport, Russia, a monument to commemorate the victims was unveiled near the airport.

    The plane was coming from Dubai on March 19th, 2016, when it crashed amid bad weather conditions, claiming the lives of 62 people.

    The monument, named Interrupted Flight, has been designed by Rostov sculptor Anatolly Sknarin. It shows the names of the victims on a vertical stone slab.

    Russian transport minister Maxim Sokolov was quoted as saying, “A year has passed from that horrible tragedy. Today, we open a memorial. Let me express condolences to the relatives of the victims.”

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  • Flight 93 Memorial


    Families of four victims who died on hijacked U.A Flight 93 in 2001 held a news conference in Pittsburgh.

    They are past ready to commence work on the Shanksville memorial. The memorial is to commemorate where the hijacked airliner crashed on Sept. 11– a memorial to the only one of four hijacked planes that the passengers prevented from crashing into a building.

    There have been objections that the shape of the planned memorial is reminiscent of the islamic hijackers.

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