One was a DC-3 that crashed on the Eastside taking out several houses. In winter we used to park at the Grand Point Cut and walk across the ice to Russell Island.Īccording to the Grosse Ile Naval Air Station web site the plane was a RAF Vulcan Jet Bomber. Are you from Harsens Island? I learned to swim on Russell Island where my father had a cottage. You might check at the website 'professional pilot rumor network' or The type aircraft slips me possibly a Dehavilland(sp) delta wing fighter-bomber. Not to many years ago someone reported finding small pieces of the in said area.

That's why I put Within the City limits.Ī British RAF jet crashed in the '50s during a air show with debris falling in the Jefferson-Chalmers area.

I'm not talking about the Northwest crash, because we had a long thread on that one.

Can anyone remember that one? I remember reading about it, but I don't remember the details. ON A MOBILE DEVICE? WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.I know that a plane crashed at the foot of Ashland where there are newer houses that don't match the surrounding area, but I also recall hearing about another plane crash on Mound Road. I have this mentality where if something bad happened to me once on a plane, it’s not going to happen again,” Crocker says in the film. ‘Why didn’t my brother survive? Why didn’t anybody? Why me?”‘Īs for returning to the air, Crocker “feels fine flying and does so quite often,” Dickens said. I remember feeling angry and survivor’s guilt. “When I realized I was the only person to survive that plane crash, I was maybe in middle school, high school, maybe, being an adolescent and confused,” said Crocker, who was interviewed by the film’s director, Ky Dickens, over 1.5 hours in Queens, N.Y., in September 2011. She was raised in Alabama by her aunt and uncle who shielded her from the media and others who sought to delve into her unique past.Ĭrocker said the enormity of what had happened didn’t really hit her for a while. Bag-covered bodies are strewn across the hillsides flanking Middlebelt Road in Romulus, Mich.

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