UTA 772 Desert Memorial on Visible on Google Maps

Here is the link to see it on Google Maps, https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d9220!2d11.9540957!3d16.8643901!2m1!1e3&fid=7

Cool and humbling.... may the victims Rest in Peace, may the Memorial's builders be blessed...

Well, Khadaffi-Libya paid, but I'm sure the web runs deep and like 9/11 no one source although some have claimed credit. ((9/11 was not Bin-Laden's idea !!)) Nuff said.

I was working at CDG at this time - it was a sadness to hear that a jumbojet was destroyed with all the lifes on board only for political reasons

I was posted to the Embassy in Ndjamena, Chad which was its final departure before the destruction. The aircraft carried many Peace Corps volunteers as well as the Ambassador's wife to Chad. She was returning a week before the Ambassador to help in setting up her daughter's wedding. The Ambassador gave a eulogy for the Peace Corps folks in the Embassy garden, foregoing his own personal grief. What a brave and honorable man and needless to say we were all speechless with tears in our eyes and a heart that will never be healed of the rift. I was unaware of the memorial...thank you for posting. The memories flood back when I saw this.

A friend put me on to the coordinates a few days ago. I can only imagine the grief that relatives and friends of the victims had. I also feel that building this memorial was a profound healing process for them.

Thanks for tour report Really emotive that many years after

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At this late stage i offer my condolences to the families that have been affected and left behind R>I>P. Was there a final conclusion as to the cause of the mishap.
Peter H.

My friend Michel CREZE was the first officer on this flight........RIP

That is pretty neat that there is a memorial for those who died in the bombing of that flight. Who would have thought to build a memorial in such a place where it could eventually be buried due to shifting and blowing sand. My thoughts go out to those who lost family on that flight.

This memorial is profoundly moving. Who designed it?

Appreciate the info on the Memorial, I was working at the US Embassy in Ndjamena at the time,and really my first experience with terrorism. I was called to the Embassy that night, and remembered seeing the Ambassador, and the news that followed was shocking. I went home the next morning. I had dinner at the Ambassador's house the night before the flght with a few people. The Ambassador's wife was on of the nicest and caring person I ever met. Her loss and the loss of a fully loaded airplane with plenty of kids returning to Paris for school, will never be forgotten.

Calling it "cool" trivializes the fact that what you are looking at is a tribute and memorial to the victims of the bombing of flight UTA 772.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTA_Flight_772

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Type in 16°51′53″N, 11°57′13″E in Google Maps and See What Happens

If you go to Google maps and search 16°51′53″N and 11°57′13″E something pretty cool happens: you’re taken to a place in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Zoom in and you would see a compass with the image of an airplane in the middle.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/04/type-in-1651%E2%80%B253%E2%80%B3n-1157%E2%80%B213%E2%80%B3e-on-google-maps-zoom-in-and-watch-what-happens/