Posted on 11/22/2004 11:42:10 AM PST by KeyLargo
No, George Herbert Walker Bush. A terrible accident, but thank the Lord 41 wasn't on it.
I just heard the AP News broadcast bewtween Rush and Sean, mention the incident.
Nice going, KL; you scooped them!
Wasn't today the anniversary of JFK assassination?
Weird day in Houston. The plane left from Dallas and was going to land at Houston Hobby I think.
Bush SR did not get on plane and has cancelled trip.(plane crashed next to freeway before landing)
Lots of disasters concerning small planes.
Ill-fated pilot was from region
Nov. 27, 2004
By Terry Turner / Gary, IN Post-Tribune correspondent
HAMLET — The jet that crashed this week when it was about pick up former President Bush was piloted by former Starke County resident Milford Dickson.
Dickson, 67, of Terrell, Texas, was a frequent pilot for Bush, and was scheduled to pick up the former president to take him to a conference in Ecuador, where Bush was to deliver a speech.
Dickson’s family still in the area includes his mother Irene and sister Kathleen, who reside in Valparaiso.
Dickson was also a nephew of former Knox Mayor BIll Dickson.
Dickson, a 1955 graduate of Hamlet High School, was in the process of landing the 12-passenger plane at Hobby Airport near Houston when it clipped an electric tower and crashed about three miles short of the runway. Dickson and two other members of the flight crew, first officer Michael DeSalvo and flight attendant Kristi Dunn, both of Texas, died in the crash of the Gulfstream G1159A
The NTSB is continuing an investigation of the crash.
Dickson grew up in the Hamlet area, according to a former schoolmate, Pat Jensen, who kept in touch with him at least once a year.
Jensen said Dickson joined the U.S. Air Force after graduation and later was a charter pilot for the Sacramento Kings of the NBA.
Dickson, as a high school student, played in area bands, and appeared once a week with one of his sisters on a 15-minute weekly country-western show on WLOI Radio in LaPorte. He also played basketball at Hamlet High School.
Jensen said that Dickson was a well-known musician in Texas, playing under the name Ford Dickson
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