page_title: Bear Creek Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
section_title: Air disaster
hierarchical_section_title: Bear Creek Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania / History / Air disaster
caption_attribution_description: English: East Coast Aviation Services N16EJ wreckage
context_page_description: Bear Creek Township is a township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The township has a total area of 67.8 square miles, making it is the largest municipality in Luzerne County. The population was 2,774 at the 2010 census.
context_section_description: Bear Creek Township was the site of a plane crash on May 21, 2000; it crashed while attempting to land at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport. As described by the BBC, the crash occurred in a "wooded area" of the township, near the intersection of Bear Creek Boulevard (PA-Route 115) and the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
  The accident killed the pilot as well as all 19 passengers. NTSB investigation ruled that the crash was probably due to low fuel. The incident spurred an FBI investigation and made news across the globe. Passenger safety in the aviation field became a major issue of the 2000 U.S. presidential election.
caption: Site of the plane crash
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