– Steve Sabol, NFL FilmsThe CASB minority report stated that the accident could have been caused by an onboard explosion of unknown origin prior to impact, and later testified before a US Congressional committee, that it was impossible for a thin layer of ice to bring down the aircraft.The McDonnell Douglas DC-8 departed Cairo, Egypt at 20:35 Greenwich Mean Time on Wednesday, December 11, 1985. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The flight was the first of three legs, scheduled for refueling stops in Cologne and Gander International Airport, then on to a final destination at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, home of the “Screaming Eagles” of the United States Army 101st Airborne Division.This was Arrow Air Flight 1285, an international charter flight returning with 248 military personnel, following a six-month deployment in the Sinai, part of a Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) peacekeeping mission, overseeing terms of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.Passengers departed the aircraft while refueling in Newfoundland, as the flight engineer conducted his external inspection. “Johnson (now Nikkel) came up with $20 earned from babysitting, and a letter to the Toronto Star. The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF, was chartered to carry U.S. service personnel, all members of the The DC-8 began its take-off roll on runway 22 from the intersection of runway 13 at 10:15 UTC (06:45 NST). I offer these "Today in History" stories in hopes that you'll enjoy reading them, as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them. There were no survivors.Hours later, an anonymous caller phoned a French news agency in Beirut, claiming responsibility for the crash on behalf of Islamic Jihad, a wing of Ḥizbu ‘llāh, (literally “Party of Allah” or “Party of God”) a Shi’a Islamist political party and militant group based in Lebanon. “I wanted these Families to know that we as Canadians cared.” Arrow Air Flight 1285 achieved flight velocity at 10:15 on December 12, 167 KIAS (“Knots-Indicated Air Speed”) and accelerating.There was no way to know.
Nikkel’s letter sparked an international campaign, resulting in 256 Canadian sugar maple trees in 1986, a living memorial to the fallen soldiers and crew, of flight 1285.What a Canadian could have told you and Kentucky had to learn the hard way, is that 20-ft. spacing isn’t enough room, for a grove of sugar maples.Thirty-two years later, the Gander Memorial grove is crowded and tangled and, sadly, no longer viable.
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It rotated near taxiway A, 51 seconds after brake release, at an airspeed of about 167 KIAS.Four members of the CASB dissented, issuing a minority opinion asserting that there was no evidence presented proving that ice had been present on leading edges such as the wings, and the minority report speculated that:The one piece of evidence that could have shown which one is correct was the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR). I told myself I’d publish 365. December 11, 1970 The Man who saved a Billion People According to United Press International “Canadian and Pentagon government authorities dismissed the claim.The nine-member Canadian Aviation Safety Board (CASB) investigated the crash and issued a report, over the signature of five members:The report went on to criticize the antiquated foil-tape Flight Data Recorder as inadequate, as well as a non-functioning cockpit-area microphone. One was an agent with the Criminal Investigations Command (CID). A history geek and sometimes curmudgeon, who still likes to learn new things. 256 passengers and crew, had only seconds to live.Airspeed reached 172 KIAS and then began to drop, the aircraft crossing the Trans-Canada Highway some 900-feet from the runway and beginning to descend. Canadian teenager Janice Johnson wanted to find a way to honor the fallen from flight 1285. It was the deadliest accident to occur on Canadian soil, the United States Army’s single deadliest air crash in peacetime. Then came the new air crew of eight, after which passengers re-boarded the aircraft. A stone memorial was erected at Fort Campbell, the Canadian teenager Janice Johnson wanted to find a way to honor the fallen from flight 1285. p. A33. The Canadian government disbanded the board five years later, replacing it with an independent, multi-modal investigative agency – the A memorial was erected at the crash site overlooking Gander Lake, a “Silent Witness”, designed by Kentucky artist, Steve Shields. However, this device was defective and failed to record anything. Afterward.
Arrow Air Flight 1285 memorial at Gander Lake, with a DC-8 taking off in the background. I’ll put it in my calendar for April. As I write this, I‘m closing in on a thousand. Rick Long, the “Cape Cod Curmudgeon” I would like to go visit it when it opens. The episode is entitled "Split Decision". Thanks for coming along for the ride. The DC-8 involved in the accident had been constructed in 1969, and had been leased to Arrow Air by its owner, International Air Leases. Arrow Air-vlucht 1285 was een McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF van Arrow Air die gecharterd was door het Amerikaanse leger en die 248 Amerikaanse militairen uit Caïro terugvloog naar hun basis in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, met tussenstops in Keulen en Gander (Canada). There is also a Memorial Park in Hopkinsville, KY, just north of Fort Campbell. Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: As of 2015A memorial to the 256 victims at the crash site overlooks Gander Lake, and another memorial was erected at Fort Campbell. The leap year changed that to 366.