Miracle of Galaxy 203

It was the morning after Super Bowl XIX. The San Francisco 49ers had defeated the Miami Dolphins 38-16. The date was January 21, 1985.

It was about 1 a.m., when 17-year George Lamson was blown from Galaxy Airlines Flight 203, which had jus’ lifted off from the Reno-Cannon International Airport. The plane actually crashed one and half miles south of the runway near an RV lot, behind Meadowood Mall.

Somehow, Lamson, of Minnesota, landed upright in the middle of South Virginia Street. He was still strapped to his seat and of the 71 people on board, he was the only one to survive. His father George, Sr. was also killed in the crash.

Still I have nightmares of the twisted, stretched, mangled and destroyed bodys.