Flight 853

On a quiet September day in 1969, the skies over Indiana turned into a nightmare.A single-engine Piper Cherokee collided with the tail of Allegheny Flight 853, a DC-9 carrying dozens of passengers. Within moments, both planes plummeted into a soybean field from 2,500 feet. All eighty-four lives were lost.The tragedy overwhelmed local towns. Morgues would fill beyond capacity, forcing officials to convert a local building into a temporary resting place for the dead. But death was not the end...