UTA Flight 772 broke up over the Sahara Desert near the towns of Bilma and Tenere in Niger.
All 155 passengers and 15 crew members died.
Lying in the middle of the Sahara, it is one of the least accessible memorial in the world.
The memorial consist of a life-sized silhouette of the aircraft created using dark stones set into the sand.
The silhouette lies inside a circle more than 200ft in diameter.
The memorial was made intentionally big so that it was visible from planes flying overhead.
Due to the remote resting place of the wreck, the wreckage is still scattered around the area.
Trucks were driven almost 70 km out to transport countless stones to place at the crash site.
After two months of grueling work in a brutal climate, the monument was complete.
Denoix de Saint Marc was personally affected by the terrorist attack because his father was on the flight.
Initially the Libyan government paid only $34m in compensation.
It took Denoix de Saint Marc and his foundation eight years to locate all the victims families.
We had to turn detective, Denoix de Saint Marc told BBC.
We had to use DNA to check people’s identities.
I also found fake families.
People pretending they were victims when they were not.
It also left enough money for the memorial.
The memorial can be viewed in Google Maps at the coordinates165153N 115713E.
Sources:Google Sightseeing,Atlas ObscuraandDC10-UTA.org.
Photos credit: Guillaume Denoix de Saint Marc
