Appalachian Murder, Mystery And Legend · Larry Bentley

That Left Turn Over Hendersonville

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Larry Bentley reflects on the memorial marker for the 85 victims, noting that tragedy doesn't pick sides and memory deserves more than fading newspaper ink.

Host Larry Bentley recounts the tragic 1967 mid-air collision between Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 and a Cessna 310 over Hendersonville, North Carolina, that killed 85 people. He explores eyewitness accounts, the official investigation, and a historian's controversial theory about a cockpit ashtray fire that may have distracted pilots in the critical moments before impact.

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