Tag Archives: memorial

Nov
10
2013

Memorial to UTA Flight 722

by walterh

Another airline crash that was unknown to me, until a recent Snopes email was sent out to discuss a memorial that was built to honor the victims of that flight.  If you want to know more, details are over here on the Snopes webpage.  But the picture below is what struck me most about the […]

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Oct
18
2013

National Airlines Flight #83, and Philadelphia’s Forgotten Hero

by walterh

A few minutes ago, I published the latest podcast, this one about National Airlines Flight #83, a crash of a Douglas DC-4 at Philadelphia Airport from January, 1951.  Curiously, this is the article that spurred the podcast itself! As usual, you can download the podcast from this link, find us in iTunes at this link, […]

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Jun
24
2012

Memorials

by walterh

You know, there’s something to be said about honoring those who have passed due to catastrophe.  I’m not saying that there should be a monument or post or something for every single person ever lost to a catastrophe; that would be unreasonable.  For example, if there was one at the site of the 1978 United […]

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