What I remember about this crash, is that my grandfather was one of the ten dead. We had just seen him and wished each other a Merry Christmas, prior to his leaving on this trip to see his son. I remember the phone ringing at almost the same time we heard about the crash on the news.

--Anonymous

It crashed 1 1/2 block from my house. I and my brother were some of the first on the seen. People were walking out of brush, and lying down. Telephone poles where snapped in two, and live wires were on the ground. The sound was like a bomb yet with no after sound. It is no wonder Walter Cronkite called it the "Miracle on Burnside".

--Dane Gjesdal

I can remember my mother and I sitting on the couch watching tv. The plane flew right over my home in Portland and we heard this horrible crash and shake, then we lost power. We had no idea what happened until my brother came home from work, he had been in the area when the plane when down. There was a little girl that survived and her parents and siblings were killed. My mother took me to the hospital and I gave her one of my teddy bears I got from the holidays. To this date Lisa and I email each other and she still has the bear I gave her 26 years ago.

--Claire