Saturday, November 12, 2011

Flight 587 crash anniversary to be marked

Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr. | Laura Santala and her children went to the Flight 587 Memorial Park in Rockaway Park , Queens to remember her husband and their father, Timo Santala. (Nov. 11, 2011)

Galleries Flight 587 a decade later Families remember Flight 587 victims

As the clock strikes 9:16 a.m. Saturday, church bells will toll throughout the Rockaways to remember the 265 lives lost in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 a decade ago.

The Airbus 300 jet bound for the Dominican Republic plunged about 2,300 feet into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of Queens minutes after takeoff from Kennedy Airport. The crash came barely two months after the Sept....

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