http://solesurvivor.info Sun, 09 May 2010 19:27:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_206" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Event organizer Don Stokes and sole survivor Phil Bradley at Liberty University"][/caption] Donald Stokes, one of the organizers of the special commemoration in Lynchburg (as the one in Charlottesville was canceled) for sole survivor Phil Bradley, penned the following account of the May 4 festivities at Liberty ... http://solesurvivor.info/bradley-visit-thrills-lynchburg/ Problems with the brakes on the vintage DC-3 that was to have flown 1959 plane crash survivor Phil Bradley have grounded the 83-year-old retired union organizer and led to the cancellation of his scheduled appearance in Charlottesville May 5. A speaking engagement set for Tuesday evening, May 4, will go ... http://solesurvivor.info/bradley-event-in-charlottesville-canceled-due-to-dc-3-brake-glitch/ [caption id="attachment_25" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Phil Bradley at the site of the monument he erected."][/caption] Phil Bradley, the sole survivor of the 1959 crash of the Piedmont DC-3 that claimed 26 lives, has been invited to serve as the featured guest of a fly-in that will take him to Lynchburg on May ... http://solesurvivor.info/bradley-to-fly-in-to-lynchburg-charlottesville-in-restored-dc-3/ [caption id="attachment_193" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Phil Bradley greets families before the October 31, 2009 ceremony. Click image for slideshow."] [/caption] Fifty years after the crash of Flight 349, Phil Bradley, the sole survivor, came back to the Crozet area to preside over the October 31 commemoration ceremony. Attendees noted that the weather was ... http://solesurvivor.info/bradley-presides-over-50th-ceremony/ [caption id="attachment_25" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Phil Bradley at the site of the monument he erected"][/caption] Phil Bradley, the sole survivor of Piedmont Flight 349 was interviewed by Charlottesville WINA-AM radio host Coy Barefoot on Wednesday, October 14. The show has been podcast. (The same day, a well-known Charlottesvillian named Ken Staples, who ... http://solesurvivor.info/bradley-appears-on-charlottesville-radio/ [caption id="attachment_41" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="The event will take place here at the memorial"][/caption] Fifty years to the day, after the long day the injured survivor of Piedmont Flight #349 spent cold and alone on Buck's Elbow Mountain, he's coming back to commemorate the event and remember his fellow passengers who weren't ... http://solesurvivor.info/50th-event-slated-for-october-31/ This October 30, 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic incidents in Virginia history, the crash of Piedmont Airlines flight #349. Carrying 27 passengers and crew, it disappeared from contact that evening and was not seen until 36 hours later when rescuers found the wreckage on ... http://solesurvivor.info/50th-anniversary-of-the-crash-approaches/