Carole Lombard
Posted on 01/18/2015 3:31:51 PM PST by smokingfrog
Sir Paul McCartney and wife Nancy Shevell, who attended Yom Kippur services prior to their wedding in deference to Shevell’s Jewish faith, might well be bentsching gommel (a thanksgiving prayer for escaping a dangerous situation) on their next visit to the synagogue after the couple narrowly escaped a crash when two helicopter pilots missed danger signals, as reported by the Daily Mail.
The terrifying ordeal occurred when the two were flying back from London, where they attended a celebration of the release of a vegetarian cookbook by McCartney’s daughter Mary, to their home in East Sussex. The pilots were attempting to land in inclement weather and at night, which would have been difficult enough, but the pilots missed danger signals, and one was so certain a crash was inevitable that he lost his ability to speak.
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Glen Miller...that reminds me. Wasn’t Clark Gable’s wife killed in an airplane crash while travelling to promote war bonds?
Carole Lombard
Well, no.
The release of Mary McCartney’s cookbook was 2012 or maybe early 2013. The Yom Kippur story has nothing to do with the incident. It’s just a poorly written story.
Thank you :)
along with Richie Valens too
Stevie Ray Vaugahn, Lynyrd Skynyrd, yes, Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper.
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Stevie Ray Vaughn’s early death was a tremendous blow to the world of music!
Jan 1st, 1979 (I think), was driving I30 from AR to Dallas. Ice storm in TX, with cars and big rigs in median and off road; crosswind ~ 40mph. White-knuckle drive of about 10 hours, instead of normal 5 from Little Rock to Dallas, as wind would blow GMJimmy across lanes on ice.
Near Sulphur Springs, heard on radio about private DC-3 crashing not far away to the East. It was Ricky Nelson’s and he was on his way to Dallas to play a gig that night.
Ricky Nelson
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>> “It must be a wind powered helicopter.” <<
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Re-fried beans are on the in flight menu.
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Ricky Nelson was free-basing cocaine at 30,000 feet, and filled the entire fuselage with ether when he opened the bottle.
Kaboom!
"He said smoke was filling up his cockpit and that he was having difficulty. Then he asked how many miles it was to Texarkana", said Ruggles. "They had been told by the tower that there was an airstrip nearby. But I think they were having difficulty seeing with the smoke. I think the pilot was just trying to land the plane anywhere they could".
At 5:14 in the afternoon, Rank and Ferguson attempted to land N711Y on Market Road, just south of DeKalb. When the DC-3 narrowly missed David Jones's house, the crew had turned west when the leading edge of the vertical stabilizer below the anti-collision light severed utility wires on the east side of the highway. A utility pole inside the field's east perimeter fence was severed by the left and right wing leading edges outboard of the engine nacelles immediately before the initial touchdown.
Though damaged, the wing leading edges did not separate until the aircraft struck a small island of trees at the field's west perimeter fence line. Truck driver Tommy Reed, on the highway, then saw the DC-3 touched down only to become airborne again, leaving a two-wheel touchdown 40 feet in length. Slightly aloft, the DC-3 again flew before its final two-point touchdown only 50 feet in length before encountering trees about 2 feet off the ground, shearing off both outboard sections of the wings, but leaving the left engine idling while the rest of the plane exploded.
Bob Allison, a helicopter rescue pilot, was dispatched to the site, landing there at 5:30, 16 minutes after the crash: "All I saw was a ball of fire", he said later. "I couldn't make out anything but a fiery mass".
Bill Chase
Also Audie Murphy & Will Rogers. Both killed in plane crashes.
Dear Paul:
It’s the “27” Club, not the “72” Club.
Forgive him, he’s a bit dyslexic.
You might be too young to know ... But a biggie http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Graham_(promoter)
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