Kewanee Back When The Great Kewanee Plane Crash of 1931

On December 5th, 1931, a plane took off from Kansas City, Missouri, bound for Chicago, Illinois. 7 people, including the pilot of the Braniff Airlines plane, were aboard when bad weather caused the pilot to have to make an emergency landing. Knowing that he was near the Kewanee Airport landing strip, the pilot buzzed Kewanee, about 1000 feet over the City as he searched for the landing lights. Unfortunately, not all of the lights in the field were lit, for various reasons, and when the pilot attempted his landing, he found himself to close to an airplane hangar. In order to miss the hangar, the pilot pulled up before coming down hard, bouncing across the road, in front of a car, and coming down finally after striking a grain bin. Dave Clarke tells the story in far more colorful detail in this edition of Kewanee Back When.