God bless and rest in peace!
Posted on 11/12/2021 1:55:40 PM PST by PJ-Comix
SUSSEX COUNTY, NJ — The New Jersey State Police named the two victims of the single-engine plane crash who died in Hampton Township's Kemah Lake section of Sussex County on Thursday afternoon.
Thomas P. Fischer, 54, of Hopatcong and Glen M. de Vries, 49 of New York, New York, died in the crash, Trooper Brandi Slota, a spokesperson from the State Police, said early Friday.
De Vries traveled along with William Shatner who played Captain Kirk in "Star Trek," in a "fully automated capsule constructed by Jeff Bezos' space tourism company, Blue Origin," in October, as well as Chris Boshuizen and Audrey Powers, for the second passenger flight in the capsule, after Bezos flew the first.
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Will Rogers and Wiley Post. Let us also not forget them. Oh, and Carole Lombard.
If one engine fails the second will take you right to the site of the crash.
Love flying in small planes. Especially when I am in the left seat.
JFK Jr is a poster boy for what causes most private plane crashes.....flying in conditions beyond his experience level.
Truly wise people know what they don’t know.
He was wearing a red shirt when he crashed
F Priceline
A twin-engine is TWICE as likely to lose an engine as a single aircraft.
Still a better record than McCain. Has your brother thought of running for Senator in Arizona?
My uncle was a B-17 bomber pilot in WW II and a huge small plane civil aviation buff after the war. My first ever plane flight was with my Uncle Jim over Ithaca and Cayuga Lake around 1963 when I was 12. I never gave it a moment’s thought and it was the coolest thing ever for this 12 year old. My uncle raced Harley motorcycles, too. He was a thrill seeker, but a prudent man and a capable pilot. He and my aunt took numerous trips to Alaska and my uncle would rent bush planes to fly around the state.
And Thurmon Munson.
Indeed
On average around 1 person dies every day in a small plane crash in the US.
On average around 100 people die every day in car accidents.
“is at least 1000 hours in a relatively recent period.”
Actually, air safety data shows the 1,000 hour pilot to be the most error prone.
Airplanes can be difficult. I normally don’t go up in them.
“Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous,
but to an even greater degree than the sea,
it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness,
incapacity or neglect.”
You Uncle’s wisdom is commendable in contrast to the arrogance of my father’s best friend back in the late 50s. This guy had been a Corsair pilot in the Pacific in WWII and later a successful businessman with twin engine Beechcraft.
He once told my father that so long as the wings stay on he could land any plane. He and his wife’s fate were sealed when he decided to fly into a thunderstorm rather than wait it out on the ground. Tore the wings off the plane.
God bless and rest in peace!
Theory:
They never went to space. The pilot knew (or figured it out) and was not willing to play along.
I’m not 100% convinced of this, but I believe it’s a theory worth considering.
Almost every reply on this thread is comprised of wishful thinking plus whistling past the graveyard.
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