Joe Atkinson moved to Evansville the same week he graduated from college and it didn’t take long for him to hear the story.
It’s the story of how Air Indiana Flight 216, which carried the Evansville men’s basketball team, crashed after takeoff on Dec. 13, 1977. The crash resulted in 29 deaths, a night that is still felt almost 40 years later in the college town.
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It’s the story that defines Evansville, Ind.
Atkinson, a faculty member at the University of Evansville, is re-telling that story in the documentary “From the Ashes.