"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Three friends of mine were killed flying their own planes, or flying in
their own planes. A fellow I worked with in Michigan, Morgan O'Leary, was
director of PR for the Michigan Democratic Party and a former newspaper
reporter. He died in the early 1970s. Walter Reuther, the great UAW leader
and a mentor of mine, also died in a private plane crash. And a third
friend, a local printer, crashed his stunt plane into a bridge abutment.

I hate flying.


Sad. I just found out last night that the president and CEO of the company
that acquired mine back in '00 was killed in a crash of his private plane in
California two weeks ago. He was a long time private pilot with a strong
sense of adventure.

RCE

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:38:23 -0500, "RCE" wrote:

Sad. I just found out last night that the president and CEO of the company
that acquired mine back in '00 was killed in a crash of his private plane in
California two weeks ago. He was a long time private pilot with a strong
sense of adventure.

Yes it is sad. It has been said there are old pilots and bold pilots,
but there are no old, bold pilots. It seems to be true. Private
aviation has a terrible safety record compared to commercial. Almost
everyone I know who flys a small plane has had, or knows of, some
serious mishap. One of my neighbors down the street is crippled for
life from a small plane crash.

I took a few lessons back in the 60s because it seemed like a cool
thing to do at the time but I never really got comfortable with the
idea of bouncing around in something that light, and with only a
single engine.