LT Vincent Lowell Michael

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LT Vincent Lowell Michael Veteran

Birth
Death
14 Jan 1987 (aged 23)
Burial
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
8, 1512
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Vince was the beloved son of Reverend Curtis Michael (SMsgt, USAF, Retired) and Mary Burns Michael and the much loved only brother of sisters, Sharon Michael-Chadwick, Phyllis Michael, and Valerie Michael Johnson.

14 January 1987 – A Learjet C-21A, 84-0121, c/n 35-567, from Detachment 4 of Eglin Air Force Base's 1402d Military Airlift Squadron crashed in a field 1.75 miles east of Montgomery, Alabama's, Dannelly Field where it had been conducting touch-and-goes on an airport runway. The men killed in the crash were identified as Maj. Charles Edward Sullivan III, 42, of Alexandria, Virginia, and 2nd Lt. Vincent Lowell Michael, 23, of San Antonio, Texas. The lone survivor, 2nd. Lt. William Edward Kelley, 26, was pulled from the wreckage by a passer-by. The twin-engine jet, which had flown to Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery to pick up parts and was on its way back to Eglin when it crashed.

"2 die in Eglin jet crash", Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Thursday 15 Jan 1987, page 1A.
Vince was the beloved son of Reverend Curtis Michael (SMsgt, USAF, Retired) and Mary Burns Michael and the much loved only brother of sisters, Sharon Michael-Chadwick, Phyllis Michael, and Valerie Michael Johnson.

14 January 1987 – A Learjet C-21A, 84-0121, c/n 35-567, from Detachment 4 of Eglin Air Force Base's 1402d Military Airlift Squadron crashed in a field 1.75 miles east of Montgomery, Alabama's, Dannelly Field where it had been conducting touch-and-goes on an airport runway. The men killed in the crash were identified as Maj. Charles Edward Sullivan III, 42, of Alexandria, Virginia, and 2nd Lt. Vincent Lowell Michael, 23, of San Antonio, Texas. The lone survivor, 2nd. Lt. William Edward Kelley, 26, was pulled from the wreckage by a passer-by. The twin-engine jet, which had flown to Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery to pick up parts and was on its way back to Eglin when it crashed.

"2 die in Eglin jet crash", Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Thursday 15 Jan 1987, page 1A.

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