August 1st, 1977
This Day in Alaska History-August 1st, 1977
The first oil flowed into the Alyeska pipeline on June 20th, 1977 and began it’s 800-mile journey through a 48-inch wide pipe from Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez at 4 miles an hour. In the Port of Valdez, a 1,000-acre facility, across the bay from the city of Valdez, the S.S. ARCO Juneau […]
KC-130 Crashes in Mississippi, All Aboard Dead
Sixteen military personnel died in the crash of a KC-123T that went down in western Mississippi while on a training flight on Monday. The aircraft, which can be used to move troops as well as conduct mid-air refueling, was moving equipment, fifteen Marines, and a Navy Corpsman from Cherry Point, North Carolina to California when […]