There will local ceremonies held Thursday, to remember and honor those 248 soldiers and eight crew members who were killed when their plane went down in Gander, Newfoundland on December 12, 1985.
The first will be with the 101st Airborne Division and the Fort Campbell community at the Gander Memorial on post, starting at 9:30 a.m. This ceremony will include a wreath-lay ceremony, remarks and a moment of silence for the fallen.
Then at noon, the Christian County Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee will host its own ceremony at the Gander Memorial in Hopkinsville on Fort Campbell Boulevard.
Both events are solemn reminds dedicated to preserving the memory of those who perished when their flight crashed in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. The servicemembers were returning from a six-month deployment in Sinai Egypt. The tragic event is considered one of the deadliest peacetime military air disasters in history.