
An American in Ireland
by The YankJohn Fay left New York one day for Ireland, which is why he's IrishCentral's "American in Ireland" blogger.
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An American in Ireland for April 2012
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 12:55 PM

Until yesterday I'd never heard the story of Flying Tiger 923, a flight from New Jersey to Frankfurt, Germany that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean 500 miles off the Irish coast on September 23, 1962. What makes the story remarkable is that of the 76 people on board 48 survived.