Wreckage from an Arrow Air DC-8 commercial aircraft is stored in a Gander Airport hangar for analysis by members of the Canadian Air Safety Board. The aircraft crashed at the airport with no survivors on December 12, 1985, while carrying 248 members of the 3rd Bn., 502nd Inf., 101st Airborne Div. They were returning to the United States after participating in peacekeeping duty with the Multi-national Force and Observers in the Sinai Desert

Wreckage from Arrow Air Flight 1285 in storage

Wreckage from an Arrow Air DC-8 commercial aircraft are stored in a Gander Airport hangar for analyzed by members of the Canadian Air Safety Board. The aircraft crashed at the airport with no survivors on December 12, 1985, while carrying 248 members of the 3rd Bn., 502nd Inf., 101st Airborne Div. They were returning to the United States after participating in peacekeeping duty with the Multi-national Force and Observers in the Sinai Desert

Wreckage from an Arrow Air DC-8 commercial aircraft is stored in a Gander Airport hangar for analysis by members of the Canadian Air Safety Board. The aircraft crashed at the airport with no survivors on December 12, 1985, while carrying 248 members of the 3rd Bn., 502nd Inf., 101st Airborne Div. They were returning to the United States after participating in peacekeeping duty with the Multi-national Force and Observers in the Sinai Desert

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Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Gander

State: Newfoundland (NF)

Country: Canada (CAN)

Scene Camera Operator: Ssgt Arnold W. Kalmanson

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

date_range

Date

16/12/1985

place

Location

48.94656, -54.57570

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Source

The U.S. National Archives

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Link

https://catalog.archives.gov/

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