Arrow Air Flight 1285

This is a Tribute video and it is dedicated to the Crew, the Soldiers of the 101st Airborne and the Familys. The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF, was chartered to carry US service personnel, all members of the 101st Airborne Division, United States Army, from a six-month deployment in the Sinai, where they had served in the Multinational Force and Observers peacekeeping mission, back to their base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The DC-8 involved in the accident had been constructed in 1969, and had been leased to Arrow Air by its owner, International Air Leases. The flight was made up of three legs, the first between Cairo and Cologne, the second between Cologne and Gander, and the third between Gander and Fort Campbell. The aircraft departed Cairo at 2035 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and arrived at Cologne on December 12, 1985, at 0121 GMT. A new flight crew boarded the aircraft, before it departed for Gander at 0250 GMT. The aircraft arrived at Gander International Airport at 0904, where passengers departed the aircraft while the aircraft was refuelled. Witnesses reported the flight engineer conducted an external inspection of the aircraft, after which the passengers reboarded the aircraft. The DC-8 began its take-off roll on runway 22 from the intersection of runway 13 at 10:15 UTC (06:45 NST). It rotated near taxiway A, 51 seconds after brake release at an airspeed of about 167 KIAS. Witnesses reported the aircraft had difficulty gaining altitude after rotation <b>...</b>
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