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Arrow Air was a passenger and cargo airline based in Building 712 on the grounds of Miami International Airport in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The airline was started in 1981 as the latest in a series
An Arrow Air Boeing 707-320C, in a hybrid Singapore Airlines livery, at Milan Malpensa Airport in 1982
An Arrow Air Lockheed L-1011-100F at Miami International Airport in 1998
An Arrow Air McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30F taxiing at Miami International Airport in 2005
An Arrow Air Boeing 757-200PCF stored at Roswell Airport in 2012
Arrow Air Flight 1285R
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Arrow Air Flight 1285R was an international charter flight carrying U.S. Army personnel from Cairo, Egypt, to their home base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, US, via Cologne, West Germany, and Gander, New
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…experienced a large-scale disaster and its second fatal accident and first since the airline's relaunch. On December 12, 1985, one of the company's DC-8s crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 248 soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division and eight of Arrow's flight crew personnel. The flight had originated in Cairo and had taken on…
Wreckage from the aircraft in storage at Gander International Airport
N950JW, the aircraft involved in the accident, seen in May 1985
Mortar shells were recovered from the wreckage, which the dissenting members of the CASB later used as a possible explanation for the crash
Caskets being carried in for a memorial service at Dover AFB on 16 December 1985