Plane crash on east side around 1959

[gnome]

Weclom Angiescott:

It was a British Vulcan bomber and fell from 30,000 ft and crashed at the end of Ashland st and Harbor Island.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A49097307

24 October, 1958. Vulcan XA908 experienced a complete electrical failure at 30,000 feet near Detroit Michigan USA during a goodwill trip. The aircraft was carrying the usual five crew and an additional engineer in the rear crew compartment. Due to a short circuit, the backup system also failed to work correctly and the control system locked up. The aircraft went into an uncontrolled 70-degree dive. The co-pilot ejected while the pilot stayed with the aircraft. All members of the crew died in the crash which created a 70 foot deep crater. The co-pilot's body was never found.

links from the old forum:
http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/91697/92278.html

From Hour Detroit and forum member Richard Bak
http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detr...=2&siarticle=1

[Whitehouse]

Just one month before that event, this happened to another Vulcan.

Here's the gravesite of the perished Britsh airmen.

From another Detroit forum I picked up this quote:

I can think of two other plane crashes. One was a DC-3 that crashed on the Eastside taking out several houses. Another was a Budd Conestoga that crashed in a field. Both crashes were in the late 1940's.

This is a discussion I found deep buried in the internet archives.


Truly a magnificent plane to see. One of them is being kept in the air by enthousiasts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan_XH558

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan

[MikeM]

This thread has some photos:

http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/...tml?1202349971

It's buried in the thread called "Paradise Lost," about the trailer park at the end of Alter Road. The thread is poorly organized, with pages and sub-pages out of order. If you explore each link you'll eventually get the whole story.