Lohmann: Twenty-seven years after crash, a memorial

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Howard Wells holds a favorite book of his late son, Bage, shown in the Louis Briel painting in the background, as he talks with visitors to his home in Richmond, VA Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Bage, then 13, was killed in a commuter plane crash in February of 1988 near the Raleigh-Durham airport and now a national organization is constructing a memorial at a park in Cary, NC to honor those killed in that crash and another in the same area in 1994.

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Artist rendering of the proposed memorial to Flights 3378 and 3379 that crashed near the Raleigh-Durham International Airport in 1988 and 1994. Flight 3378 was headed to Richmond. The memorial will be built in a new park in Cary, N.C.



Memorial

To find out more about the memorial to Flights 3378 and 3379 proposed for Cary, N.C., visit www.fafonline.org or call (404) 881-2895.

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Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 10:30 pm

Lohmann: Twenty-seven years after crash, a memorial

BY BILL LOHMANN
Richmond Times-Dispatch

Richmond.com

Feb. 19, 1988, is not difficult for Howard Wells to remember. After all, you don’t easily forget what he describes as “the worst moment of my life.”

For more than 27 years, Wells has lived with the tragedy that occurred that Friday night and the pain and sorrow that followed and never went away.

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