Очень красивый, но труднодоступный мемориал

Jun 10, 2013 09:47

Воздвигнут в Сахаре на месте падения взорванного в 1989 г. ливийскими террористами самолета. Источник.

Wreckage of UTA Flight 772



UTA Flight 772 was a scheduled flight operating from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to Paris CDG airport in France.
Flight Path



On Tuesday, September 19th, 1989 the aircraft exploded over Niger in the Tenere region of the Sahara Desert. French investigators determined a suitcase bomb planted by Libyan terrorists to be the cause. All 170 people on board died.
Memorial Site



Eighteen years later, families of the victims gathered at the crash site to build a memorial.



Due to the remoteness of the location, pieces of the wreckage could still be found at the site.






Building the Memorial



The memorial was created by Les Familles de l’Attentat du DC-10 d’UTA, an association of the victims’ families along with the help of local inhabitants.









The memorial was built mostly by hand and uses dark stones to create a 200-foot diameter circle



The Tenere region is one of the most inaccessible places on the planet. The stones were trucked to the site from over 70 kilometers away.












The memorial was built over the course of two months in May and June of 2007.






170 broken mirrors, representing each victim, were placed around the circumference of the memorial.






The memorial is anchored by the starboard wing of the aircraft which was trucked to the site from 10 miles away. Workers had to dig up the wing and empty it of sand.



A plaque commemorating each victim is affixed to the wing.






















The memorial was partly funded by the $170 million compensation package provided by the Libyan government.






Completed Memorial












The memorial can be seen from Google Earth.


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