Almost Unimaginable Reality
On 19 September 1989 UTA flight 772 was travelling from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to Paris when it was blown up over the Sahara desert in Niger. All 156 passengers and 14 crew members were killed.
Where the French plane fell, the families of the victims have built a lasting and visually striking memorial to the dead. A life-size silhouette of the aircraft lies inside a dark stone circle surrounded by 170 broken mirrors, each one representing someone who died. Jutting out at the northern point, like a sundial, stands the right wing of the DC10.
INTERESTING DETAILS IN THE LINK BELOW
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/
At 16°51′53.748″N
11°57′13.362″E in the Sahara desert there is an intriguing landmark -
the outline of an aeroplane pointing in the direction of Paris. Visible
on satellite pictures, this beautiful image, like a tattoo on the
landscape, has been a viral hit.
It is a memorial to a flight that never reached its destination. On 19 September 1989 UTA flight 772 was travelling from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to Paris when it was blown up over the Sahara desert in Niger. All 156 passengers and 14 crew members were killed.
Where the French plane fell, the families of the victims have built a lasting and visually striking memorial to the dead. A life-size silhouette of the aircraft lies inside a dark stone circle surrounded by 170 broken mirrors, each one representing someone who died. Jutting out at the northern point, like a sundial, stands the right wing of the DC10.
INTERESTING DETAILS IN THE LINK BELOW
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/
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