Arrow Airlines Flight 1285 Memorial [memorial] d. December 12, 1985 The monument entitled "Silent Witness" a forever memory to Flight 1285, is located over looking the crash site of the charter Arrow Air DC-8 at Gander Lake, Newfoundland. On December 12, 1985, the DC-8 transport plane crashed shortly after a re-fuelling stop leaving 248 American soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division and an air crew of 8 all dead. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Arrow Airlines Memorial Site, Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada