On the rainy evening of November 14, 1970, a chartered jetliner crashed on its approach to land at Tri-State Airport in Huntington, West Virginia. All seventy-five passengers were killed, including most of Marshall University's Thundering Herd football team, coaches and staff, prominent community supporters, and the flight crew. The crash of Southern Airways Flight 932— known as "the Marshall Plane Crash" and memorialized in the film We Are Marshall (2006)—remains the single worst air tragedy in US sports history. The magnitude and impact of the accident devastated not only Marshall's student body and employees, but the community of Huntington and beyond._x000D_Flight 932 reconstructs the Marshall Plane Crash and its ripple effects, blending research on collective trauma with the profiles and testimonies of surviving loved ones, witnesses, and the officials who remain deeply affected by it decades later. The result is a composite picture of an American town's struggle to make sense of the horrors of this defining catastrophe, and to still find a way to forge ahead in the aftermath.
