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 worked on body recovery at the crash site, also appeared on the radio program.)
This Time magazine article was the main compendium of information in the early days.
His son has posted some photos of Phil, and noted photographer Ed Roseberry got some too.
One man who claims to have been among the first to find Phil is Charlottesville’s Rey Barry. However, Phil insists that the first person to reach him was Air Force Sgt. John Weis. Nonetheless, here’s what Barry has to say (in 2006) in a WINA radio interview.
One hiker/photographer recently visited the wreckage and created a website with photos. And while the “Hiking Upward” page seems to have been taken down, a Trimble.Outdoors page shows the way.
Information about Piedmont Airlines can be found at its Wikipedia page, at this site for Piedmont history, and there’s even a restored DC-3 at the Carolinas Aviation Museum.
The son of Co-pilot Bascom Lee Haley made a short video of the invocation at the 50th Anniversary ceremony.
The October 8, 2009 cover story in the Hook newspaper in Charlottesville.
October 2009 story by Crozet-area historian Phil James in the Crozet Gazette.
October 27, 2009 Hook story on newly-published photos by Ed Roseberry.
November 1, 2009 Hook story on the 50th Anniversary ceremony.