Tag: March 1954
Midair Inferno: 18 Servicemen Die in Fiery Crash Near Shadyside
Washington D.C. – In a terrifying display of aerial chaos, a U.S. Air Force cargo plane, a C119 Flying Boxcar, plummeted to earth in a blaze of flames, killing 18 servicemen near Shadyside, Maryland, just 10 miles south of Annapolis on Friday night, March 19, 1954. The eyewitness accounts were as harrowing as the scene…
