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TWA Flight 514 - In Memory of Those We Lost

This Virtual Cemetery memorializes the 92 victims of Trans World Airlines Flight 514, a Boeing 727-231 jetliner that crashed on the western slope of Mount Weather, a foothill of the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Berryville, Virginia, on the morning of December 1, 1974.

TWA Flight 514 originated at Indianapolis, Indiana, and was bound for Washington, D.C., with an intermediate stop at Columbus, Ohio. Upon departing Columbus, the three-engine jetliner carried 85 passengers and a crew of seven. The flight had been scheduled to land at 10:23 a.m. at Washington National Airport, directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., when air-traffic controllers diverted it to Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, about 45 miles northwest of Washington National. The diversion was due to weather that included driving rain, fog, and winds gusting up to 40-50 miles an hour in the region.

While flying through the cloud layer in this turbulent weather, the jetliner failed to clear the fog-shrouded, 1,754-foot-high Mt. Weather. The plane sheared off tree tops, crossed a roadway at fifteen feet, and slammed into a 10-foot-high rocky outcropping at 11:09 a.m. The aircraft disintegrated on impact, killing all 92 persons on board instantly. The main wreckage cut a swath 60 to 70 yards wide for about a quarter of a mile. The remains of its occupants and burning wreckage were strewn over a wooded area about the size of two football fields.

“Today I looked into the sky and it was beautiful. I then realized it’s because you are there. You fly with the angels now, but part of you will always be with us.” -- Anonymous

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Mrs Merle M. Moulton Basil

5 Jan 1927 – 1 Dec 1974

Island Pond, Essex County, Vermont, USA

James A “Jimmy” Bennett

24 Sep 1938 – 1 Dec 1974

Reynoldsburg, Franklin County, Ohio, USA

Richard Irving “Pat” Brock

27 Feb 1930 – 1 Dec 1974

Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon, USA

Plot info: Aspen D-53-15

James E Brown III

28 Dec 1951 – 1 Dec 1974

Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Section 39 Site 15-3

Mary Johnston Brown

30 Aug 1945 – 1 Dec 1974

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA

Plot info: Sec: 14, Lot: 55

John A Buchanan III

7 Nov 1952 – 1 Dec 1974

Saratoga, Santa Clara County, California, USA

Plot info: 74 M No. 15

Gloria Marie Lacefield Cartwright

1 Sep 1925 – 1 Dec 1974

Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Section 5 Site 140

BG Roscoe Conklin Cartwright Sr.

27 May 1919 – 1 Dec 1974

Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Section 5 Site 140

Cathleen Ann Casey

27 Sep 1949 – 1 Dec 1974

Lewis Center, Delaware County, Ohio, USA

Plot info: Garden of the Annunciation, Lot 485, Space 5.

Robert Douglas Curie

27 Oct 1957 – 1 Dec 1974

Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA

Robert James Curie

9 May 1930 – 1 Dec 1974

Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA

James F. Curtis IV

30 Sep 1942 – 1 Dec 1974

Westbury, Nassau County, New York, USA

Plot info: 21-F-120

John A. DePew

18 Sep 1904 – 1 Dec 1974

Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA

Janice Gunn Crawley Dismore

9 Sep 1931 – 1 Dec 1974

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA

Plot info: Sec-G Lot-9 Sp-11

Scott Michael Dismore

6 Jun 1967 – 1 Dec 1974

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA

Plot info: Sec-G Lot-9 Sp-12

Wendy Kathleen Dismore

2 Apr 1964 – 1 Dec 1974

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA

Plot info: Section G

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