Sad Event Brought Back Memories
By Dena Miller
@Dena91 (16791)
United States
February 1, 2025 7:00pm CST
It has been a sad couple of days for aviation in our country. On Thursday evening a military helicopter crashed into a plane which was attempting to land in Washington DC. All people on both aircrafts perished. My heart breaks for those families and the rescuers who have to retrieve as many bodies as they can.
Then last night a medical flight left the NE Philly airport, and something went terribly wrong. It crashed onto the second busiest road in that area, the Roosevelt Blvd. The biggest roadway is 1-95. This sad event brought back many memories. I grew up in NE Philly. !-95 was seen from our living room window. Just across the 4-lane highway is the airport. We always could see planes landing and taking off. From our home we drove around the corner. Turned left and there is the Roosevelt Blvd., which is a 12-lane divided highway. Where that plane crashed is where my grandparents lived. As I watched some videos and read some stories my mind was flooded with so many memories. Countless times we drove where that plane went down. One of our favorite mom and pop diners is in that area. I have pictures in a photo album of my brother and I growing up in that area. My heart is broken for the ones killed and injured.
Has something ever happened where you once lived, and memories come flooding back? Picture is aerial view of the Blvd. as we always called it.
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@1creekgirl (42203)
• United States
2 Feb
Those accidents were so horribly tragic, and I know that was so sad for you with the family memories of growing up in Philadelphia.
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@snowy22315 (184681)
• United States
2 Feb
Not really, I think I've been lucky in that way.
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@just4him (318962)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
3 Feb
That's awful! I don't watch the news, but my friends who picked me up for church told me about one flight that crashed, not about the other. My heart goes out to all the families who lost loved ones on those flights.
Only once. I heard about a flight that crashed in San Diego in the same neighborhood where my little family once lived.
@FourWalls (70981)
• United States
2 Feb
A plane crash always reminds me of the time my mom and I were going somewhere in 1971. We saw smoke near the airport, and as we came around the corner we saw a crashed plane on the runway. My mom pulled over and started crying. Being a kid, I tried to comfort her by saying we knew it wasn’t my brother (because he was still in boot camp at the time). She said, “but it’s somebody’s son.” And she was right. It was an Air National Guard plane, and the pilot was killed. (My mom taught me a lot about empathy.)
@JudyEv (345280)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Feb
This is all so very, very sad. Just awful news at a time when we could all do with some good news.
