Sunday marks 50 years since what was then the world’s deadliest airplane accident: a crash that claimed 130 lives outside Paris. The most devastated community was not in France, but in the United States.
It was the worst thing that ever happened to Milton Bevington. He witnessed the crash of the Boeing 707 at Orly Airport, with his wife and mother-in-law onboard.
“The plane went up about 6 feet and came back down and bounced around, zigzagged and finally broke in half,” he said.
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