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 eerily similar to the weather 50 years earlier, when Bradley spent a day and a half on Bucks Elbow Mountain. Charlottesville was [...]
Event organizer Don Stokes and sole survivor Phil Bradley at Liberty University
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 University:
The weather in Lynchburg and Charlottesville was Read more »
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 on as planned.
