Central Air Lines Flight 6 (FICTIONAL)

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This is the result of 300 years of bigotry. 566 people are killed. In 1968, Central Air Lines Flight 6 was bombed and fell out of the sky. The pilots were unable to regain control of the airliner and the plane crashed into downtown Montgomery, Alabama murdering a large number of people including all on board the DC-6B. It started as a normal morning. Central Air Lines was still in the process of fleet modernization around the entire nation. A short few routes were still being flown by DC-6Bs, though the more innefficient Constellations and DC-7Cs already having been retired by 707, 727, 737 and DC-8 jets. This 14 year old DC-6B, delivered in 1954, was operating a short range flight from Montgomery to Miami, Florida. The new jets were being placed on higher priority routes first; the Montgomery to Miami route not being of large importance. The Central maintenance at Montgomery Airport had extremely limited money and resources, meaning repainting of older airliners was often overlooked. The jetliners recieved all priority with cosmetics. In the Southeast, the hot and humid climate hadmany of the older propliners over the last 4 years. Locals often called Central the 'Rusty Airline' due to this problem. N6013D was no exception. Central Air Lines headquarters in Centralia, Washington would often apologize to its southeastern passengers for this issue. At the time of the accident, more resources were finally being allocated to end this silly problem of corroded appearing airliners, stating the problem as being 'an outrage'. Several people boarded Flight 6 that fateful day. Reduced airfare and integatrion as per company policy meant there were a few African American passengers aboard that day as well. The KKK often threatened Central to discontinue its integration policies, but the airline refused stating 'We believe everyone has the right to fly. All passengers are welcome and complete satisfaction to all who travel our airline is the top most priority.' Central, unsurprisingly was one of the first racially integrated airlines, having started the anti-segregationist policy in 1956. Many with racist beliefs stopped flying Central, but most of the people around the south continued to fly Central, due to the afordable airfare and good service. Central was also (and still is) one of the largest employers in the state of Alabama. A KKK member boarded Flight 6 among the 70 or so other passengers aboard. In his suitcase, he carried a bomb. He placed the suitcase carefully on a luggage rack at the base of the tail directly above where the control cables to the rudders and elevators ran through. Flight 6 took off that morning. A few minutes past the take off roll, the landing gear was raised. It was about seven minutes into the flight, when the bomb detonated. Shrappenal exploded through the cabin instantly killing 10 people. The blast caved in the floor below it destroying the control cables. The pressure from the blast tore a large hole in the upper fuselage. The blast caused a major fire to break out in the cabin. Onlookers from around Montgomery could only look up horrified as Flight 6 made its nosedive towards the heart of their city. Several eyOnewitnesses reported the sight of bodies falling from the burning plane, some of which were on fire themselves. These corpses landed all over the town hitting cars, buildings and other objects. One mutilated corpse crashed through the windshield of a car, killing a six year old girl. Debris from the plane itself also fell over the town, burning up hard. Lastly, just several blocks shy of the capitol building, the DC-6B finally piledrove into a group of state office buildings. Two were almost completely destroyed while one of the buildings was completely and absolutely destroyed by the DC-6. 390 workers in the three buildings were killed, along with six people over a mile away from the tragedy, struck by falling debris. All 70 people onboard the DC-6 were also killed. Only 4 bodies were ever recovered away from the crash site itself. All the others were vaporized on impact. This immediately led to a change of heart by many people across the state of Alabama, realizing acts of white supremacy had caused the massacre. An investigation by the FBI proved undboubtedly that the KKK was responsible for destroying the DC-6B. Demonstrations broke out all over the country until Governor Wallace of Alabma finally relented and had the entire KKK chapter arrested for terrorism. Cenral grounded all of its airliners as a result of the attack, deeming the reason as 'We are concerned about the safety of our passengers and well being of innocents on the ground. Therefore, until this racial issue is completely solved in the American southeast, which caused this massacre over Montgomery, we cannot afford to continue operations in heated areas and lose any more aircraft.' American Airlines, United Air Lines, Delta Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, National Airlines, Southern Airways, V2 Airlines, Trans World Airlines and Pan American World Airways all grounded their fleets within the following week. The mayor of Montgomery wrote a deep letter of apology to Central Air Lines for the disaster. As the violent racist groups across the south began to get arrested and jailed by the FBI and local law enforcement, the airlines slowly restarted operations. The CEO of Central sent a letter back to the mayor of Montgomery thanking him for the heartfelt apology on behalf of the city and promised operations would restart soon. By 1970, much of the racist beliefs in the south had died off, the massive change triggered by the massacre of Flight 6. Racism was very much frowned upon by the southeast by 1971. Today, no such threat exists in the southern states as racism is merely a tiny candle in the wind there. It is likely that in the near future, whatever ember remains on that evil candle will finally be blown out by the wind of justice. Central still holds a strong policy which does not allow known racists, regardless of ethnicity or hatred, to fly aboard their aircraft. Most southern states recognize the day Flight 6 crashed as a day where schools and businesses are required to close. This tradition began with Alabama in 1973. Thanks to Tesler for the animated props, WilliamT for the aerials and AirplaneNerd777 for the fire plume. #Air #Central #Cloudmaster #DC6 #DC6B #Douglas #Flight_6 #Lines #N6013D #Super