Moose Mountain crash revisited

[Waumbek]

Oct. 25th was the 40th anniversary of the Moose Mountain crash.

This is part one of a Valley News retrospective article reprinted yesterday in the Concord Monitor:

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081027/NEWS01/810270411/1043/NEWS01

This is the second part: http://concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081028/NEWS01/810280331

 

[Jason Berard]

This series of articles was a fascinating read for me. I walk the trails and woods on that mountain regularly, as it is nearby, and I do trail/ boundary work there.
I'm glad the articles will get a wider audience than the local paper could provide.
Thanks for posting this.

 

[WhiteMTHike]

That is one well written article. I had the shivers reading it. I never knew anything about this tragedy.

 

[evilhanz]

The National Life Insurance Company lost four employees on this flight. They maintain a pretty thorough archive of newspaper articles, photos, police reports, and notes about the crash on their website. It's interesting reading and not the kind of thing you usually find on a corporate website: http://www.nationallife.com/public/histarchive/plane_crash.asp

Here's a photo of the tail section:

Path of the crash:

The type of plane - a Fairchild Hiller 227: