Services planned to remember Gander crash victims
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) – Soldiers and members of the public will hold memorial services Thursday in several locations for the 248 Fort Campbell soldiers killed 28 years ago in a plane crash in Canada.
The soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team were on their way back to Fort Campbell from a six-month tour as part of a peacekeeping mission in Sinai, Egypt. Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed a short distance from Gander International Airport in Newfoundland on Dec. 12, 1985, also killing eight crew members. Canada officials determined the crash was caused by icing.
The current Sinai multinational force commander, Col. Thomas O’Steen, said in a news release from Fort Campbell that a memorial will be held in Egypt. Fort Campbell is holding a ceremony at 10:30 a.m. CST, and the city of Hopkinsville will have a service at 2 p.m.
