BLUEMONT — A group of Loudoun County residents is planning a ceremony to right a 50-year wrong.
The Dec. 1 event in Bluemont will commemorate the 50th anniversary of TWA Flight 514 crashing into a mountainside near Mount Weather, at the border of Loudoun and Clarke counties.
Ninety-two people lost their lives in the crash, and it led to worldwide airline safety improvements, but the disaster has been largely forgotten by the general public. It has never been acknowledged with a ceremony where family members of the victims and first responders who worked the incident could grieve together, and no official marker or statue has ever been placed at the crash scene…