01/09/2007 (8:55 am)
Comair remembered
By Adam Bennett adam@monroenews.com
Many of the headlines in The Evening News this week revolve around the 10 year anniversary of the Comair Flight 3272 crash.
It devastated this area when the plane went down in the Raisinville Township woods, killing all 29 on board. It also galvanized the people of this region who helped the relatives, emergency workers and others heal.
I remember the crash very vividly. I was in high school and had friends and fellow students that lived very near the crash site. It was almost unreal to see the people I knew from school on television explaining the horrific sounds and sights of the crash.
That was long before I picked up a pen to take on this profession myself.
Now on the other side of the newsprint, I have been very interested to talk with the reporters that covered this story at that time.
Many of the stories around the newsroom recall the endless days of the search in the frigid cold. Our reporters stayed up all night to put out a special section on the crash the day after.
One of the aspects I didn’t recall was the ceaseless efforts of the emergency workers and the unimaginable sorrow of those families left behind after the crash.
It made such a profound impact that, even after 10 years, we’re still looking back to it.
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Comment by Paula Wethington
By Paula Wethington / paula@monroenews.com
In January 2000, I started working at The Monroe Evening News and noticed the front page from the Comair “Extra” edition framed in the newsroom. “You did WHAT?” was my awed response.
I had known about the plane crash. I was living in northwest Ohio at the time, and had watched the Toledo and national news coverage. But it wasn’t until I lived here that I knew much this crash affected Monroe County.
Comment by Mike
I was a student at the U of M at the time and I would always drive through Grape on Plank Road to get home on weekends. Every time I passed by, I would think about those people.
This was also about the time that I was turning away from the Detroit papers because of the strike. I began reading the New York Times and right there on the front page was the line “Raisinville Township.” And, of course, the Monroe Evening News, I’d bet, helped to write that article.
You don’t want these things to happen near your home, but it is heartwarming to see the people from you hometown handle things so well.
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