Tuesday, November 5, 2013

UTA Flight 772...

UTA Flight 772...  A French airliner flying over Africa in 1989 was bombed by Libyan-sponsored terrorists.  It came down, in pieces, into the Saharan Desert in Niger – one of the most remote and inhospitable places on the planet.  Including passengers and crew, 170 people died that day.  In 2008, families of the victims gathered at the crash site and built a memorial (ground-level view at right), using rocks trucked in from almost 50 miles away and incorporating pieces of the plane's wreckage.  The monument is so large that you can see it from space.   Google maps view.

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