Into this tranquility on December 28, 1946, burst the worst nightmare of every airline passenger: a fatal crash. It is now 75 years since that evening when the TWA flight from Paris to New York crashed very near Shannon Airport. People walk among the wreckage of the stricken TWA flight 'Star of Cairo ' near Shannon Airport in December 1946. Unlike other air disasters in Ireland, there is no memorial to the TWA Flight 6963 that crashed at Inishmacnaghton. How to get there: 2km west of Shannon Airport, but privately owned.

Source: Irish Examiner December 28, 2021 05:10 UTC