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Gabriel Piedrahita '96 was one of several hundred people killed when American Airlines Flight 965 crashed into the side of a mountain outside of Cali, Colombia. If Gabriel were not on the plane, the crash would be just one more evening news tragedy that claimed more faceless victims, that created more faceless orphans and widows and widowers...
Gabriel Piedrahita '96, a 22-year-old Winthrop House resident, died on December 20 in the crash of American Airlines Flight 965 bound for Cali, Colombia...
Piedrahita, who attended high school in Miami, was on his way to visit his parents in Cali when the plane went down...
Piedrahita was traveling from Miami to Cali with his childhood friend Ariel Felton, who attended Wellesley College...
...error, not mechanical failure or sabotage, caused the air tragedy which killed 160 people. Technicians from Colombia and the U.S., working in the National Transportation Safety Board laboratories, believe that either the pilots or air traffic controllers, or both, made mistakes as the plane made its final approach into Cali. The Boeing 757 was 13 miles off course when it crashed 40 miles from its destination in clear weather. Four people and a dog survived...