“C-130 going down…”
I remember where I was when I heard the news fifteen years ago. I was sitting in World History with Mrs. Mautz when the announcement came over the intercom. They said a plane had crashed on the North Side on Highway 41.
That’s all they said.
It worried me. I have family that lives on the North side. I had visions of a plane falling out of the sky and landing on top of my aunt’s car on the hightway. I knew the odds were against such a thing happening, but what are the odds of another plane crashing in Evansville?
Of course, the plane didn’t fall on my aunt’s car. It didn’t hit the highway at all. A C-130 Hercules was doing some type of training maneuvers and crashed into JoJo’s and the Drury Inn instead. Sixteen people died in the fiery wreckage. I especially remember hearing stories about a waitress at JoJo’s that died in the crash. It was a very sad thing.
I had never eaten at JoJo’s. I’ve eaten there several times since they rebuilt. They have a plaque hanging inside memorializing the waitress and others who died in the crash. It’s a little eerie thinking that your’re sitting in the very spot where an airplane had once blown up.
But then again, it happened fifteen years ago.
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Whoa. It can’t be 15 years ago. That’s crazy. I was in 6th grade, I believe.
Do you remember watching it on the news? It seemed to me like the only witnesses they picked to be on camera didn’t have any teeth!
Of course, I might be imagining things.