Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana


Moral Township is one of fourteen townships in Shelby County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,577 and it contained 1,805 housing units.
Moral Township was organized before 1840.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which is land and is water.

History

On September 9, 1969, Moral Township was the site of the deadliest air disaster in the history of Indiana.
On that date, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 Jetliner, Registration N988VJ, collided in mid air with a Piper PA-28 registration N7374J which was a light general aviation aircraft. After the collision, Flight 853 inverted and impacted a soybean field near London, Indiana at over 430 MPH. Of the 82 people on board the DC-9, there were no survivors. The pilot and sole occupant of the PA-28 was killed upon impact with the tail assembly of the DC-9. With a death toll of 83, to date this is still the deadliest aviation disaster in the history of Indiana.

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