PLANE CRASH ANNIVERSARY

On Oct. 3, 1946, all 39 people aboard an American Overseas Airlines aircraft were killed when it smashed into Hare Hill, near Stephenville. At that time, it was the worst disaster in the history of U.S. civil aviation. The plane was bound for Shannon, Ireland, from New York when it crashed 10 minutes after takeoff from Harmon Field, where it had refuelled.