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To share in the sorrow of experiences and memory of the Korean Air Flight 801 plane crash an anniversary ceremony was held Saturday at the memorial monument on Nimitz Hill

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Editor’s Note: The following is former Gov. Carl T.C. Gutierrez’s recount of the Korean Airlines Flight 801 crash that occurred on Aug. 6, 1997.His reflections here are in response to

Derek Kelbie and Barry Small will be sleeping out overnight in Dundee to raise money for a children's charity.

And the flames just increased again and the screams slowly faded away. never came back. >> small has survived the impact, but he desperately needs help. >> we got maybe a quarter mile down here, we stopped and we all ran to the crash site to get down to where we could hear the screams and you could see the fire. >> carl gutierrez, governor of guam at the time, lives three minutes away. he rushes to the rugged site with members of his staff. >> i ran down and found barry small with his leg broken...

52 minutes after the crash, barry small is stabilized, but for most of the other passengers on korean air flight 801, its too late. coming up -- what could lead a highly experienced crew to mistake a hill for a runway? >> when you have fatigue, it affects your decisionmaking. you dont really process information. >> they were suddenly finding thins were stacking up, then suddenly theyre much closer to the ground than they expected. . ha-ha! shall we dine? [ chuckle ] you wouldnt expect an insur...