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This day in the Way Back Machine: Flight 1866 crashes, 11 souls lost
This day in 1971, an Alaska Airlines jet crashed near Juneau, headfirst into a mountain, killing all 111 people on board.
Memoir material: I was coming home from being an exchange student in India, and was scheduled on the same flight, the very next day. It had been a very long flight from Bombay. I was heading back to Juneau-Douglas High School for my senior year.
We overheaded to Anchorage because no pilot wanted to take any more chances after what was, at the time, the worst crash in US history, and it took a couple of more days to get into Juneau, where everyone was still shellshocked.
The following summer, I worked at the law firm of Robertson, Eastaugh, Monagle, and Bradley on behalf of some of the family claimants on that flight, compiling their stories for the lawsuits underway.
Many Alaskans remember that day. Many lost loved ones. Maybe you have memories. Send me what you remember of Flight 1866: suzanne@mustreadalaska.com (and this means you, too, Bob C.)
Today, I will fly in to Juneau under much safer conditions, thankful for the GPS coordinates on mountaintops all around, pioneered by Alaska Airlines. Juneau, here I come, so please move the clouds aside, just in case.
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