The ties to Boston conjured up painful memories for Nathan Birch, a Baltimore skater who grew up training at that very same club. He remembered seeing memorials from the 1961 crash, which killed several Boston club members, on the walls and in an upstairs lounge.

The response to the mid-air crash was both immediate and immense. “The responders realized that they had a plane crash and immediately escalated to a response that ultimately included about 300 people last night,