Joe Sharkey, travel writer who cheated death once before.
He wrote a travel column for the NYT and also did some freelance work. On September 29, 2006, he was working on one of those freelance stories for Business Jet Traveler. He was a passenger in an Embraer Legacy 600 when it collided with a Boeing 737 at 37,000 feet.
The executive jet managed to land safely at a remote military airport, but the Gol Linhas Aéreas commercial airliner it collided with did not have such a fortunate fate: It nose-dived to the ground, killing all 154 people on board. It was the deadliest civilian aviation accident in Brazil at the time.
His story for the NYT.
Admiral Cloudberg’s writeup.
Lawrence sent over an obit for Robert Butler, director. Other credits include the good “Hawaii Five-O”, “Columbo”, and “The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes”.
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Robert Butler. Hogan’s Heroes. Star Trek, Moonlighting and Hill Street Blues.
He created a great deal of my video world from age 8-21.
RIP
Could have been watching the Dukes.