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SW corner of State Rt. 237 & Petersburg Rd., Hebron
TWA flight 694, tail #N93211, had taken off from the airport when it was struck by a private DC-3 & fell to the ground approximately 750 feet west of here, on January 12, 1955 at 9:04 a.m. The TWA Martin 202A was en route to Cleveland, Ohio & the DC-3 was en route from Battle Creek, Mich. to Lexington, Ky. when the impact occurred. Over
13 passengers and crew on flight 694, including 1 N. Kentuckian, and 2 crew members on the DC-3 perished. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) ruled that the probable cause of the accident was the DC-3 operating in the area as unknown traffic and without clearance. This was the first fatal commercial airplane accident since the airport began its operations in 1947.
Dedicated September 23, 2012.