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Fighter Plane Burning After Crash At Ann Arbor Municipal Airport, June 1965

Fighter Plane Burning After Crash At Ann Arbor Municipal Airport, June 1965 image
Year:
1965
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 16, 1965
Caption:
This crash claimed the lives of a Saline man and his son yesterday at Ann Arbor Municipal Airport. State Police identified the victims as Royce W. Gilbert, 43, and his son, Gary, 16. The plane crashed in a woods south of the airport after first bouncing off the runway of the airport, breaking off both wheels. Witnesses said the plane was on fire as it went down. Gilbert was a commercial pilot who had moved to the area about two months ago.