Truly Bizarre Monuments Found Abroad
| May 5, 2017
UTA Flight 772 Memorial
After the crash of UTA Flight 772 in 1989, the families of the victims came together to built a monument to commemorate the lives lost out there in the Sahara Desert. After 18 years of plane debris lying scattered across the patch of desert where it landed, the victim’s families were given $170 million to build a fitting monument. The idea they finally landed on was a gigantic compass with a plane inside, made out of rocks.
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