1978 plane crash in escambia bay

[MarkS]

My wife saw the plane go over the house she was living in and then ran to her grandparents and rode in their boat with them to see if they could help. First responders were already there by the time they got near the plane so they turned around and went home
Milligan train crash in April 1978 kept me from going home after work and for a week after. Anhydrous ammonia leaked out and my mom, granny, sister and sisters kids had to evacuate and I had to track them down after I got off work

 

[Welldoya]

Let’s not forget the time a barge hit the 3 miles bridge and people had to drive the long way around for 7 months.
This was before the Garçon Point bridge so people had to go all the way to Hwy 87.
So, what was normally a 6 or 7 mile drive to work turned into a 50 or 60 mile drive.

30th anniversary of the catastrophic barge strike – Pensacola Bay Bridge

www.pensacolabaybridge.com

 

[JedClpIT]

Just read that report. Definitely midnight reading. So, a tragic cluster flock of a landing. Sad

 

[shootnstarz]

Misread the altimeter by 1k feet, copilot said "Hey, we're at 50..........."

 

[Krazy1]

The one that is most intriguing to me happened in Mobile Bay in 2002. Small plane was struck by a florigen object that most say was a UFO. I watched a UFO documentary and they showed what ever hit the small plane sliced right through it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...e-crash/89fb2ba0-4352-4b1d-83a6-087161156d1a/

 

[pete repete]

My wife saw the plane go over the house she was living in and then ran to her grandparents and rode in their boat with them to see if they could help. First responders were already there by the time they got near the plane so they turned around and went home
Milligan train crash in April 1978 kept me from going home after work and for a week after. Anhydrous ammonia leaked out and my mom, granny, sister and sisters kids had to evacuate and I had to track them down after I got off work

i remember that train derailment. we had to evacuate up to milton. when we came back home there were dead birds all over the yard.

 

[B52]

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I was in collage. The pilots were flying a night ASR (non-precision) approach, set the altimeters incorrectly and not properly monitoring the altimeters. The approach controller didn't help as well as he might. The lucky thing was flying into the water(airpot elevation is 125 feet above sea level). If they had stay just above the water, they would have hit the hill on scenic hwy.

Interesting side note: The plane carried USPS mail. About 6 months after the crash a friend in school received a letter that was on the plane. The letter was water stained and some of the ink was smeared.

 

[Recondo 101]

We had a bag of mail on board the plane, it took a few months to get it in plastic bags, still wet, in my offices in Destin. Had checks and applications with payment checks that had disappeared. Interesting. Good they stamped the outside of the bags with Mail Damaged in Aircraft Crash.

You guys remember the train derailment just west of Antioch road in Milligan that had three tank cars of Tulol that detonated, launching one tank car like an ICBM over the woods on fire pouring flaming tulol and setting the woods on fire? Great place to have a train derailment at those bridges on 90 and the railroad, in that swamp.

 

[MarkS]

You guys remember the train derailment just west of Antioch road in Milligan that had three tank cars of Tulol that detonated, launching one tank car like an ICBM over the woods on fire pouring flaming tulol and setting the woods on fire? Great place to have a train derailment at those bridges on 90 and the railroad, in that swamp.

I remember all too well as I was at work on Duke Field aka Eglin auxiliary field 3 and couldn’t go home for 7 days. My Mom,Granny and the rest of the family had to evacuate and get word to me as to their location once they made it out of Milligan.

 

[ratio411]

Donna

My grandfather owned the Union 76 at the corner of 29 and Stumpfield (opposite corner from the Ford dealership).

He received this letter from Donna. Never been opened.