On September 9, 1969, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 became a permanent part of Shelby County'[s history.  That history, and the people lost in that tragic incident were remembered during a special ceremony 50 years later.

On Monday, Dianne Elrod was among the family members who visited the site to place a memorial marker.

She wants people to remember her father, Captain James Elrod, one of the pilots of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 passenger jet that collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 light aircraft near Fairland.

Elrod was one of 83 people killed in the collision and crash.