HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — Mark Free remembers looking out his family's home as a teenager and seeing the glow of TWA Flight 128 exploding after it crashed more than 40 years ago in northern Kentucky.
Twelve of the 82 people aboard survived when the plane went down in 1967. Free tells The Kentucky Enquirer that he's wondered why no one ever tried to memorialize the victims.
Now a group is raising money to buy markers to place near the crash sites of Flight 128 and American Airlines Flight 383. Flight 383 slammed into a hillside on its approach to what then was known as the Greater Cincinnati Airport in 1965. There were 62 people aboard Flight 383 and 58 died.
The newspaper reports that "Flight 383 and 128 Memorial Project" has grown to include more than 20 supporters, including three survivors of Flight 128.
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Information from: The Kentucky Enquirer, http://www.nky.com
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