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Authorities Still Checking Crash Scene

Authorities Still Checking Crash Scene image
Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
May
Year
1973
Copyright
Copyright Protected

Pilot Error Called Cause Of Fatal Crash

Pilot Error Called Cause Of Fatal Crash image
Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
June
Year
1974
Copyright
Copyright Protected

Eastern Air Lines Plane Rests In Cow Pasture After Emergency Landing Near Willow Run Airport, November 1947 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Eastern Air Lines Plane Rests In Cow Pasture After Emergency Landing Near Willow Run Airport, November 1947 image
Year:
1947
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 17, 1947
Caption:
ALL OCCUPANTS SAFE IN CRASH-LANDING: One minute after its takeoff from Willow Run at dusk last night, this Miami-bound Eastern Air Liner crash-landed in a cow pasture without injury to any of 17 persons aboard. Capt. Thad Royall, veteran commercial pilot, made a lightning decision to land his craft after mechanical trouble developed. Wheels up, he skimmed telephone wires, clipped a fence, and skidded the plane to a stop within a few paces of a tree-lined 10-foot deep drainage ditch. Only damage to the craft was bent propellors and a scraped under-fuselage. Repair crews today were replacing the propellors preparatory to flying the plane away from the scene of the forced landing.

Wreckage Of Joseph Bandrofchak's Taylorcraft Plane, September 1954

Wreckage Of Joseph Bandrofchak's Taylorcraft Plane, September 1954 image
Year:
1954
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 10, 1954
Caption:
CRASH IN WHICH LOCAL PILOT DIED: This is the wreckage of the light airplane in which Joseph H. Bandrofchak, 45, was killed this morning. Cause of the crash remains undetermined. Bandrofchak was the co-owner of the American Auto Accessories store at 123 W. Huron St.