MI MI - Jean, 58, & John Block, 57, Utica, 4 July 1977

[Gardener1850]

Jean Gertrude Block
Macomb County, Michigan
58 year old white female

Height: 67.0 to 69.0
Weight: 160.0 to 170.0
Hair: Red/Auburn
Eyes: Green

They were flying the family owned Cessna airplane; White and Green; MI Tag N 50935


On July 4, 1977, John (MP 21546) and Jean Block left Macomb Airport in Macomb County, flying in their family owned plane. They were planning to meet up with one of their sons in northern Michigan to celebrate the holiday together. Their destination was the Lost Creek Sky Ranch Airport in Luzerne, MI.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/21543/

John B. Block
Macomb County, Michigan
57 year old white male

Height: 66
Weight: 140
Hair: Gray or Partially Gray
Eyes: Brown

On July 4, 1977, John and Jean (MP 21543)Block left Macomb Airport in Macomb County. they were flying their own plane, planning to meet up with one of their sons in northern Michigan to celebrate the holiday together. Their destination was the Lost Creek Sky Ranch Airport in Luzerne, MI.
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/21546/

 

[glamourkitty1922]

The Blocks. Here is their 69 Cessna 150 Here is a good article on them Diver Down: Aircraft vanishes nearly 36 years ago over land, hasn't been seen since

 

[Richard]

The couple was flying in their privately owned Cesna 150 plane. There was obviously some emergency which caused the plane to go down, probably on land, possibly in a remote, uninhabited and swampy location.

In a thickly wooded area, the Cessna would have been ripped apart by tree branches and hit the ground in pieces with virtually no hole made in the tree canopy, thus hiding the crash from air searches.

If in a very remote area or one of rugged terrain and vegetation, hikers might not have stumbled on the crash site over the past 42 years.

It is also possible that they decided to fly over a large area of water, and went down there.

 

[Ozoner]

The couple was flying in their privately owned Cesna 150 plane. There was obviously some emergency which caused the plane to go down, probably on land, possibly in a remote, uninhabited and swampy location.

In a thickly wooded area, the Cessna would have been ripped apart by tree branches and hit the ground in pieces with virtually no hole made in the tree canopy, thus hiding the crash from air searches.

If in a very remote area or one of rugged terrain and vegetation, hikers might not have stumbled on the crash site over the past 42 years.

It is also possible that they decided to fly over a large area of water, and went down there.

As someone mentioned in the comments to the "Diver Down" article, a direct route would have taken them right over Saginaw Bay. I'm not sure why investigators think that the plane made it to Huron-Manistee National Forest.

 

[Coffee56]

Tons of info from their son. He states that his father didn’t use instruments and followed maps and highways so he wouldn’t have gone over water. He had some flight hours but doesn’t sound like he was experienced. Health issues. Jean hated flying. Etc. I stopped reading.

https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/vanished/

 

[Ozoner]

Tons of info from their son. He states that his father didn’t use instruments and followed maps and highways so he wouldn’t have gone over water. He had some flight hours but doesn’t sound like he was experienced. Health issues. Jean hated flying. Etc. I stopped reading.
https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/vanished/
Vanished

If the plane went down over land, then it's surprising that the wreckage wasn't found. I suppose there are some very remote spots, but hunters and morel mushroom hunters cover an awful lot of ground in Michigan. I would think that just about every square yard of ground gets walked on at least once a decade if not more often.
There are plenty of inland lakes, so the plane could have gone down in one of those.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

'People don't always think to look up': Search continues 45 years after plane went missing

A plane went missing in northern Michigan more than 45 years ago. The family is trying to raise awareness about the case to bring closure to what happened.

www.fox17online.com

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich. — The Block family is searching for answers decades after their loved ones’ plane disappeared in northern Michigan.

John Block was 30 years old when his parents, John Block Senior and Jean Block, planned to fly from Detroit to Luzerne, Michigan on July 4th, 1977. Their plane never arrived at the air strip east of Grayling.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Jean Gertrude Block – The Charley Project

 

[John/Jane Doe]

John B. Block – The Charley Project

 

[ifindedout]

Accident report (NTSB and FAA links don't work)

Accident Cessna 150J N50935,

Written off July 4 1977, when went missing on a flight between New Haven, Lenox Township, Macomb County, Michigan, and Mio, Oscoda County, Michigan. Aircraft damage & fatal injury to the ...

aviation-safety.net

YouTube videos, including an interview with their son, and a map

1977 The Block's Cessna 150J -

On Monday, July 4, 1977, at 11:10am, John and Jean Block boarded their Cessna aircraft and departed Macomb Airport in New Haven, Michigan and headed north. Their destination was to be Lost Creek Sky Ranch Airport in Luzerne, Michigan. They never arrived there, or anywhere, for that matter. They...

www.michiganmysteries.com

 

[Pennysmom1]

Oct 19, 2023

Unsolved: The disappearance of John and Jean Block

www.9and10news.com

Friends of the Block Family Missing Flight N50935

Friends of the Block Family Missing Flight N50935. 62 likes. Local service

www.facebook.com

Michigan Hunters Asked to Help Locate 40-Year-Old Plane Crash

Decades after the plane crash, Michigan-native son John Block, Jr. isn't giving up the search for his parents.

www.outsider.com

 

[Richard]

John B. and his wife Jean Gertrude Block
Missing since 4 July 1977

Their Plane also missing.