1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: Hey, if you live in Indye and if you lived 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: here for a long time, there's significance today's date, October twentieth, 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: because back in nineteen eighty seven, it was on today's 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:17,119 Speaker 1: date that the Ramata Inn plane crashed. Disaster took place. Now, 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: I was ten years old when this took place, Nige, 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: but I remember it like it was yesterday, major news coverage. 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: My wife who lived on the west side, obviously she 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: was ten years old. Wasn't my wife at the time, 9 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: but she lived on the west side. She remembers hearing 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: the big loud boom of the plane crashing into the 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: Ramona rivers, hearing it, Yes, it was like a sonic boom, 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: like an explosion. A United States Air Force jet of 13 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: course Air two, piloted by Major Bruce T. Garden, was 14 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: en route from Pittsburgh to some sort of Air Force 15 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: base in Nevada when I started having some issues. Had 16 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: engine trouble like gear trouble, and has started losing altitude 17 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: very fast. About fifteen miles south of the Indianapolis International Airport. 18 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: A call was made, Hey, I'm gonna have to bring 19 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: this thing down. I'm losing controls. I have no more 20 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: contact so the pilot, as he got closer and closer 21 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: to the airport, realized he's lost all control of the plane. 22 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: He ejects out from probably about five hundred feet in 23 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: the air, and he's got bumps and bruises, but he's okay. 24 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: The plane then bounces off a bank one building over 25 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: on the west side, southwest side, and then slams into 26 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: the Ramata In hotel, ultimately killing ten people. And that 27 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: hotel with all the fire burns and everything stood for 28 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: like two years, just a big eye sore, and so 29 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: they tore it down. This is what it sounded like 30 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: on WIBC that day with news coverage. 31 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 2: Radio Indiana, WIBC Indianapolis. A plane crash on the west 32 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 2: side in Indianapolis. It's forty six degrees in cloudy this afternoon, 33 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 2: cloudy and cool in the high of fifty. Good morning. 34 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 2: I'm Joe Picking along with Frent Heckman, and this is 35 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 2: WIBC news. 36 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: So that was the newscast of the Ramata d disaster. 37 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: Here's a little bit more coverage back on this date 38 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven from WIBC. 39 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 3: The plane has crashed. We do have Marion County Sheriff 40 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 3: City Police and State Police setting up a command post 41 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 3: near fifty five hundred Bradbury near the scene or near 42 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 3: the Ramada Inn at the out at the airport. We 43 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 3: have heard reports that people have been jumping from windows 44 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 3: out of the hotel. People in the area see all 45 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 3: you can see is smoke coming up from the area. 46 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 3: We do have the report that it was a military aircraft. 47 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 3: We did understand that the pilot apparently ejected from the craft. 48 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: And ultimately they cleared the pilot of any wrongdoing. I 49 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: think the Air Force ended up having to pay X 50 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: amount of money in a settlement, but it wasn't a 51 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: lot though it wasn't as much as you would think 52 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: that it was eleven years old.