Posted on 07/07/2008 1:04:17 PM PDT by Maelstorm
LOL.
Icarus, FTW !!!!
Number ONE.
As in, THE FIRST.
Good job.
That I agree with....that part IS a tragedy.
Kind of surprised Patsy Cline didn’t make the list...
Clemente and Glen Miller should be #1 and #2. They were both flying in support of good causes when they died.
“They seemed to have missed Glen Miller.”
There is the rumor that Glen died in a Parisian house of ill repute of a massive heart attack, but because of his popularity the news was kept a secret and replaced with the plane crash in the British Channel.
The list should have included Audie Murphy, most decorated soldier on allied side of WWII.
As was Carole Lombard.
“Ten <ost Tragic Celebrity Air Accidents”.....
maybe by the papparazzi’s point of view...
You’re quite right, TS, I forgot the accident part and thought only of air disasters.
Or a golf club.
The one I remember most was Jim Croce. He was at the top when he died.
Clemente was on a plane carrying relief supplies to Nicaragua (they had suffered an earthquake). Clemente’s plane went down in the Carribean on New Years eve.
How much would the press have enjoyed the orgy of grief if Barack Obama’s plane had actually crashed? Right now they are staring at the prospect of covering for this idiot while he sells them down the river and flip/flops on every promise he ever made to the Left in this country. How much more appealing would it have been to have it all end prematurely? That way Obama could be deified, and none of the messy details about his utter craven opportunism would ever need be confronted...
Jim Croce, Jim Reeves are a couple more names
Clemente wasn't flying for fun or business. He was on a beat up old DC-3 he leased to deliver medical and relief supplies he had collected to Nicaragua after the 1972 earthquake that killed thousands there. The plane was dangerously overloaded and crashed into the ocean shortly after takeoff. He wasn't on some publicity stunt. The guy had played some winter ball in Nicaragua during his career and just wanted to do something to help.
Clemente already was universally recognized as being one of the best players ever at the time of his death. He had been in the majors for 17 years, had a number of batting titles, MVPs and golden glove awards and was only the 11th player in history to reach 3000 hits. He was unanimously elected to the Hall of Fame a few months after his death.
Wellstone (a hack politician) and Aaliyah (a young not yet superstar singer) don’t belong on that list. But Patsy Cline and Rocky Marciano should be in there somewhere
While I don’t buy the scenario, JFKjr was planning a run for Moynihan’s seat. He had worked at establishing political connections in the state, even with Republicans Like then Senator Al D’Amato, whom Jr. always referred to as Alphonse when together in public. On a somewhat personal note, my cousin, now a bigshot in the Suffolk County GOP, wasa coworker of Jrs at the Manhattan DA. His comments were that Jr was always a gentleman, did the work assigned, was no prima donna, and played on the office softball team and made the rounds of the watering holes with coworkers . My cousin’s commented that he never met Caroline, but after working with Jr, he believes Jackie must have raise her kids right.
I saw him just a week or so before this accident. One of my favorite guitarists of all time.
And Christ Almighty, that arm.....
Read the article.
There were tons of famous people not on this list. How about Patsy Cline? Jim Croce? There was also Ricky Nelson, and for those of us who listen to Christian music, the great Keith Green.
For those of you who have never heard of them, he was at least as talented as all of the above, but because his music wasn’t mainstream, not a lot of people know about him. But he wrote “Create in Me a Clean Heart” and many others. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h89-3_kIRDA
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