Thursday, October 13, 2022

Senior American Special – “Rocky Top Crash:” The Story of a B-47 Bomber Crash atop Petit Jean Mountain

Petit Jean State Park

What to know

Join Division of Arkansas Heritage Historian, Travis Ratermann, for a short history of the B-47 and its devastating history of crashes in the last 1950s through 1960 including the accident atop of Petit jean Mountain that saw the only time that the entire crew was able to bail out and survive. As the Air Force put it at that time…” this was a record.”



















1285 Petit Jean Mountain Road
Morrilton, AR 72110