This is one of the few memorials for this terrible accident. RIP LTC Graham !
I need to add that he may have well been the BEST geometry and Latin teacher, ever.
Lapeer, Mich. (AP) -- A four-engine Air Force cargo plane with six reservists aboard crashed on a training mission in Michigan's Thumb Saturday, killing five and leaving the sixth man critically injured.
The five victims were charred beyond recognition, said a spokesman at Selfridge Air National Guard base near Mount Clemens, where the flight began. The dead were identified through flight records.
Air Force officials said that just before the C130 plane crashed it was flying purposely low as part of a training exercise designed to prepare the crew to avoid radar detection or enemy fire.
The Herald-Palladium Benton Harbor Michigan 1975-07-28
He was flying with:
Captain Laird E Simpson
1st Lt. Phillip C. Molina
Tech Sgt. Edward McNeill
Staff Sgt. Christopher Belanger (dies from injuries in August)
William F. Lang
Note: According to one account, another airplane suffered an exploded engine which
caused problems for two other planes.
I need to add that he may have well been the BEST geometry and Latin teacher, ever.
Lapeer, Mich. (AP) -- A four-engine Air Force cargo plane with six reservists aboard crashed on a training mission in Michigan's Thumb Saturday, killing five and leaving the sixth man critically injured.
The five victims were charred beyond recognition, said a spokesman at Selfridge Air National Guard base near Mount Clemens, where the flight began. The dead were identified through flight records.
Air Force officials said that just before the C130 plane crashed it was flying purposely low as part of a training exercise designed to prepare the crew to avoid radar detection or enemy fire.
The Herald-Palladium Benton Harbor Michigan 1975-07-28
He was flying with:
Captain Laird E Simpson
1st Lt. Phillip C. Molina
Tech Sgt. Edward McNeill
Staff Sgt. Christopher Belanger (dies from injuries in August)
William F. Lang
Note: According to one account, another airplane suffered an exploded engine which
caused problems for two other planes.
This is one of the few memorials for this terrible accident. RIP LTC Graham !
I need to add that he may have well been the BEST geometry and Latin teacher, ever.
Lapeer, Mich. (AP) -- A four-engine Air Force cargo plane with six reservists aboard crashed on a training mission in Michigan's Thumb Saturday, killing five and leaving the sixth man critically injured.
The five victims were charred beyond recognition, said a spokesman at Selfridge Air National Guard base near Mount Clemens, where the flight began. The dead were identified through flight records.
Air Force officials said that just before the C130 plane crashed it was flying purposely low as part of a training exercise designed to prepare the crew to avoid radar detection or enemy fire.
The Herald-Palladium Benton Harbor Michigan 1975-07-28
He was flying with:
Captain Laird E Simpson
1st Lt. Phillip C. Molina
Tech Sgt. Edward McNeill
Staff Sgt. Christopher Belanger (dies from injuries in August)
William F. Lang
Note: According to one account, another airplane suffered an exploded engine which
caused problems for two other planes.
I need to add that he may have well been the BEST geometry and Latin teacher, ever.
Lapeer, Mich. (AP) -- A four-engine Air Force cargo plane with six reservists aboard crashed on a training mission in Michigan's Thumb Saturday, killing five and leaving the sixth man critically injured.
The five victims were charred beyond recognition, said a spokesman at Selfridge Air National Guard base near Mount Clemens, where the flight began. The dead were identified through flight records.
Air Force officials said that just before the C130 plane crashed it was flying purposely low as part of a training exercise designed to prepare the crew to avoid radar detection or enemy fire.
The Herald-Palladium Benton Harbor Michigan 1975-07-28
He was flying with:
Captain Laird E Simpson
1st Lt. Phillip C. Molina
Tech Sgt. Edward McNeill
Staff Sgt. Christopher Belanger (dies from injuries in August)
William F. Lang
Note: According to one account, another airplane suffered an exploded engine which
caused problems for two other planes.
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