The Plane Crash in Blossburg

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Tuesday, June 23, 2015, silently marked the 48th anniversary of the tragic plane crash of Flight 40. Residents still recall seeing the flaming Mohawk BAC 1-11 flying way to low over the hills of Mansfield, Covington and Blossburg. Smoke and flames could be seen trailing being the plane as it continued to lose altitude.

The noise of the plane is what many remember hearing first, once their eyes quickly located the plane above and many Blossburg residents were outside on a nice June day in 1967. Many were at the swimming pool located at the Blossburg Island Park when the plane went down.

All 34 on board were killed when the plane went down 13 minutes after taking off from Elmira, New York after it took off for Washington, D.C.. The passenger plane crashed near the small town of Blossburg, Pa.

It was one of the worse disaster the town of 1,956 residents had ever witnessed. As well as, being the most tragic and grizzly accident scene any volunteer fire personnel had ever worked. This crash was also the worst air disaster for the growing Mohawk company, at that time.

The plane was only a year old and only had 2,246 hours of use. It was equipped with 2 model 506-14 Spey engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce. In fact, they called these planes the one-eleven Fan-Jets.

This passenger jet plane crash was the very first NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigation. Even the FBI arrived in Blossburg to assist in the investigation into why the plane went down.

Some believed it was sabotage, as did, the Founder-President of Mohawk Airlines, Mr. Robert Peach. Others believed a bomb brought down the plane, but that was later dismissed as no evidence supported the use of a bomb.

 

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I believe First News Now had some great content about this crash at one time. But then Facebook shut him down, resulting in that and 10 years of other content down the drain.