Miss Piggy

Churchill


Out toward the airport lies the wreck of a Curtiss C-46 freight plane that crashed here in 1979 after developing engine trouble, but without a single fatality. It's called Miss Piggy because freight planes were typically overloaded (and it once carried a cargo of pigs).


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