The first TV bulletin said only that a plane had crashed near Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va.
“I remember feeling sad, but I think we all assumed it was a tiny plane of some sort. So we really didn’t give it much thought,” recalls Veronica Heide, who was a senior at Huntington High School at the time and had been watching TV the night of Nov. 14, 1970, with her parents and three siblings.