It is one of 27 works inspired by the crash to be auctioned off Saturday at “Orly: Through the Eyes of Artists,” sponsored by the Buckhead Heritage Society. The auction, to be held at the ...

On June 3, 1962, an Air France charter flight from Paris to Atlanta crashed on takeoff from France’s Orly Field. Friday marks the 60th anniversary of the crash. A total of 130 people on board ...

ATLANTA — At the time it was considered the worst plane crash in aviation history. On June 3, 1962, an Air France charter flight from Paris to Atlanta crashed on takeoff from France's Orly Field.

On June 3, we remembered the fiftieth anniversary of the famed Orly crash, which killed nearly all of Atlanta’s most influential arts patrons at a time when the city needed their guidance most.

“Some people have described it as being the most significant event since Sherman burned Atlanta,” says one historian. “It was our Titanic,” concludes another. “It lives in my memory ...

RELATED: Sadness, legacy of Orly crash remembered Rhea was a 32-year-old mother of two when it happened. She woke suddenly at 6:30 a.m. on the morning of that day, June 3, 1962, after a clear ...