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TWA Flight 514 Crash Site Memorial @ Mount Weather

Photograph by James W. Bailey

 

Image captured at the sight of the TWA Flight 514 crash memorial located on Route 601 (Blue Ridge Mountain Road) near Mount Weather, Virginia.

 

Flight 514 crashed December 1, 1974 while on approach to Dulles International Airport.

 

The crash of Flight 514 brough unwanted attention to the government's top secret continuance of government facility at Mount Weather. Today the government facility at Mount Weather is known as F.E.M.A.'s Emergency Operations Center.

 

An informative article about this disaster can be read at www.timescommunity.com/site/tab3.cfm?new sid=13474688&...

 

 

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