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304/365: Dress Up

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Happy Halloween everyone!

My picture idea that I wanted to do for Halloween didn't happen due to time constraints so I just shot some stuff of me dressed up in my office. We'll take what we can get lol

Blue Mountain Airplane Crash

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Blue Mountain Airplane Crash

On the morning of October 26, the C-119G-FA – known affectionately as “the Flying Boxcar” – took off from Sewart Air Force Base near Nashville, Tennessee, headed towards the Olmsted Air Force at Middleton. The four members of the flight crew were: First Lieutenant Robert S. Hantsch, pilot; Second Lieutenant Walter B. Gordon, Jr., co-pilot; Tech Sergeant Marvin W. Seigler, crew chief; and First Lieutenant Gracye E. Young, flight nurse. Their assignment was to pick up cargo from Olmsted and return with it to Sewart. Note: The Olmsted Air Force Base was located where Penn State’s Harrisburg Campus currently exists. Some modern sources state the plane was from Stewart Air Force Base, but it was from Sewart Air Force Base in Tennessee.

By 1:30 p.m. the plane was over Altoona and was cleared for approach. However, as the plane approached Harrisburg visibility was limited due to rain and fog. At 2 p.m., the pilot radioed they had missed the approach and was cleared for the approach a second time at 3:06 p.m. A couple minutes later, the plane began its second attempt to land.

Due to the fog and rain, the view of the mountain was obscured from view as the plane circled and prepared to descend. Official reports state the visibility on top of Blue Mountain was zero, so when the north face of the Blue Mountain appeared out of the fog it was too late and there was no chance for the pilot to react. At 3:15 p.m. the plane slammed into the mountaintop, killing all four on board instantly. The Air Force immediately took over the crash site, removing the wreckage and recovering the bodies of the four who perished in the crash.