- Date
- 1967-11-05
- Kind
- Accident
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- disastertransportationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
At about 10 p.m. on November 5, 1967, a twin-engine Beechcraft crashed roughly a mile east of the Beaver Island airport. Pilot Paul Eddy survived with minor lacerations; Archie LaFreniere and Bill Wagner found him standing on the wing after volunteers and a circling search plane responded.
Evidence and limits
The newspaper gives a detailed community account and attributes the immediate cause to an encounter with another departing aircraft during approach. It does not provide an aviation accident report, registration, exact coordinates, or a full account of the other aircraft.
Open questions
- What official investigation identified the aircraft and cause?
- Where exactly did the crash occur, and what happened to the wreckage?
Sources
- Reports a twin-engine Beechcraft crash about a mile east of the airport at approximately 10 p.m., the volunteer search by Archie LaFreniere and Bill Wagner, pilot Paul Eddy’s minor lacerations, and the pilot’s account of avoiding another departing plane. It does not identify the aircraft registration, other aircraft, official investigators, or exact crash coordinates.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1967-11_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1967-11_Beaver-Beacon
Added 2 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Paul Eddy survives a twin-engine plane crash near Beaver Island airport, 1967”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-plane-crash-1967/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 1967, “Plane Crash.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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