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.
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.)
The residents of Hopedale, a Tazewell County town in Illinois, are preparing a farewell for the 32-year-old Marine, who died in Nevada when his training aircraft crashed on March 1 during a training exercise.
2,380 American flags were placed along 12 miles of highway for honouring Captain Reid Nannen, whose funeral is planned on Saturday, March 22 at Eastview Christian Church in Normal.
He left behind a wife and four children. He was temporarily stationed at the U.S. Navy’s “Top Gun” school in Nevada, while his permanent posting was in Japan with the Marines.
Larry Eckhardt of Little York initiated this effort. The Hopedale residents also wanted to do something special for their native son, therefore, they warmly welcomed him.
Reid’s sister, Bethany Nannen, moved by this wonderful gesture of the townspeople said that her family feels humbled beyond belief.
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.”
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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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.
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.”
