- Dates
- 2021-11-13 – 2021-11-22
- Kind
- Emergency response
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Rural Health Center
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- healthcareemergency-responsecommunityaviation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
After a fatal aviation accident on or shortly before November 13, 2021, the Beaver Island Rural Health Center publicized a 24-hour counseling line and organized a November 22 community session on surviving trauma. The Great Lakes Islands Alliance also sent a solidarity message to the island community.
Evidence limits
These forum notices are strong evidence that a community-support response was organized, especially where the Health Center is the named source. They are not an incident investigation: the archived posts do not identify the victims, aircraft, cause, official response, attendance, or treatment outcomes.
Sources
- The post relayed a WPBN/WGTU account identifying William Julian, Mike Perdue, Kate Leese, and Adam Kendall as the four people killed when a Britten-Norman BN-2A crashed while traveling to Beaver Island on November 13, with 11-year-old Laney Perdue surviving. It is a secondary news relay preserved in the forum, not an official accident report; funeral arrangements are recorded as announced at the time.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016888
- A memorial copied from a funeral-home notice identifies Michael Fleischman Perdue, age 43, as a crash victim and describes his family and Beaver Island ties. It is a near-contemporary family memorial, not an accident-investigation source.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016895
- The forum posts link to funeral-home notices for Adam Kendall and Katie Leese, later identified in the forum’s funeral-arrangements notice as two of the crash victims. The archived posts preserve the links but not the linked notices’ full text.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016881
- The forum posts link to funeral-home notices for Adam Kendall and Katie Leese, later identified in the forum’s funeral-arrangements notice as two of the crash victims. The archived posts preserve the links but not the linked notices’ full text.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016882
- The Health Center offered a 24-hour Community Mental Health counseling line after what it called Saturday’s tragedy and said it was coordinating additional community counseling. It establishes a contemporaneous support response, not clinical utilization or a complete incident account.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016878
- The Health Center announced a public session with David Behling, described as prior crisis support for Beaver Island first responders, and said Joe Moore would livestream it. The post and reply establish the planned public resource and livestream attempt, not attendance, clinical outcomes, or a recording.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016890
- A participant thanked the Rural Health Center for arranging the session, described Behling’s explanation as reassuring, and thanked Joe Moore for the livestream. This provides participant confirmation that the session was experienced and streamed, but not attendance, clinical outcomes, or a recording.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016896
- The Alliance sent a message of support after a recent airplane accident and identified ferry and air links as critical island infrastructure. It corroborates the community context but does not identify victims, aircraft, cause, or official findings.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016883
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island organizes community trauma support after a November 2021 aviation tragedy”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-community-trauma-response-november-2021/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Services for Bill, Mike, Katie and Adam,” November 19, 2021. (and 6 further sources listed on the page).
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