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Posted: Thursday, 12 November 2009 8:12AM
Victims of the Crash of American Airlines Flight 587 Being Remembered
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The 265 victims who died in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 will be remembered at a memorial service on the eighth anniversary of the disaster.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg will speak at Thursday morning's ceremony in the Rockaway Park section of Queens.
Flight 587 was destined for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic when it crashed on Nov. 12, 2001, after taking off from Kennedy International Airport. The air disaster jarred city residents still shaken from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center just two months earlier.
The annual service is held at a granite memorial that honors the 260 people on board the aircraft and the five people on the ground killed when the plane crashed in the nearby Belle Harbor neighborhood.
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