Yesterday, Friday 13th. was a cold day where I live and weather like that does not provide a lot of motivation to involve myself in outdoor activities. I can only absorb so much information from the “talking heads” on TV and I didn’t have anything that I wished to read at the time so, the question came up, “what to do”. Not much left but to surf the internet.
As most know, the Huntington, WV area suffered a terrible tragedy back on November 14, 1970. The tragedy was of course the crash of a charter aircraft carrying the Marshall University football team resulting in the loss of 75 lives. I remember the event and read a great deal about it at the time. As with all else, over time memories fade and I had forgotten a lot of the information surrounding the crash, events that followed, and the resulting NTSB investigation and their findings.
I, as many others do, daily read the Huntington Herald-Dispatch newspaper on-line. It helps me keep in touch with the area where I grew up and continue to have many friends and relatives. For a long time there has been a space on the bar across the top of the web site with a link titled MU Crash. I had never really looked at it, so I decided yesterday to see what it was all about. It contains volumes of information, pictures, old newspapers, and data that I had never seen. It is archived in an easily followed pattern. Included in the data is the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder from the plane crash, the NTSB findings, many pictures, testimony, etc.
I would commend the Herald-Dispatch for their efforts in developing and maintaining the archived information. Sometime, if you wish to look at the past and read in detail facts regarding the tragedy, go to the Huntington Herald-Dispatch web site and plan on spending some time reading and looking at that which surrounds one of the greatest tragedies to occur in the area.
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