1961 President Airlines Douglas DC-6 crash

On the night of September 10, 1961, the Theodore Roosevelt left Shannon with eighty-three souls aboard, only to plunge into the River Shannon five thousand feet from the runway. A broken attitude indicator or faulty ailerons may have spun the plane into a deadly left bank while fatigue and darkness strangled the pilots' judgment. The river keeps that many secrets still, and the county remembers the weight of water closing over metal and bone.