The First Airplane Hijacked In America Happened In Michigan

I don't know about you, but I love learning cool things about our state.

For example, did you know that Grand Rapids became the first city in the world to add Fluoride to it' drinking water?

Or that Grand Rapids was the first city to have a hydroelectric power plant.

Those are just a couple of the great firsts to come from Michigan.

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Recently, while scrolling through my phone, I stumbled upon another first that happened in Michigan, and this is one that everyone wishes had never happened.

The First Airplane Hijacked In America Happened In Michigan

Back on May 14th, 1928 the first airplane in America was hijacked by a man in an apparent suicide attempt.

A 28-year-old pilot named Harry W. Anderson was taking 18-year-old Clarence René Frechette on a flight from Roseville, Michigan to a town near Pontiac, Michigan when he was brutally attacked.

Frechette had a ball-peen hammer and used it to strike Anderson in the back of the head which knocked him unconscious and sending the plane on a downward spiral.

Somehow just before the plane was about to crash into the ground Anderson woke up and was able to pull the plane up from it's deadly dive.

The plane still crashed into the ground, but miraculously both men survived.

Anderson was able to recover from his injuries and continued on as a flight instructor.

Frechette was charged with attempted murder but was later found guilty of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and sentenced to six years in state prison.

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