On
Thursday, December 12, 1985, the chartered DC-8 plane carrying 248 members
of the 101st Airborne Division of Fort Campbell, Kentucky and 8 crew members
returning home for Christmas from peace keeping duties in the Middle East,
crashed during takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland. The following Monday, December
16, 1985, President and Mrs. Reagan visited Fort Campbell for a memorial
service honoring those soldiers.
Some time later, a memorial to those soldiers that died in the crash was placed at the junction of US 41-A and the Pennyrile Parkway in Hopkinsville, Christian Co, Kentucky. This memorial lists the names of those soldiers. In addition, a tree was planted in memory of each of them. I have recently [May 2001] taken some photos of the memorial and they will be found here!
I would like to make this page a memorial to the memory of these
men and women but need your help to do so. If you can supply an obituary
or final resting place for anyone on this list, please send it in.
Be sure to include the name of the newspaper, the city and the date.
I would like to put up a memorial page for each of them that includes comments
made by their family, friends, and others that knew them, including pictures.
Who were they? What were they like? What were their likes and dislikes?
How was your life affected by them and by the loss of them?
The following list of crew members on this flight was provided by Ms. Sydney Delores Jennings, mother of Todd Martice Jennings listed in the New York section, and Bonnie Britt . Thank you for contributing this information to this site.