[Viennacon]

Ntoriuosly, senators and planes never seem to end well. Stevens, Obenshain, etc.

[cicero2k]

Ntoriuosly, senators and planes never seem to end well. Stevens, Obenshain, etc.

Heinz (helo), Wellstone also come to mind.

What strikes me is that driving for 45 years I can only recall engine failure three times, but the number of hours on the road way excedes what I would experience casually in the air. Plus, not nearly the attention to maintenance. Two of the times were due to rubber belt failures which in a plane would have been proactively replaced. The third time, was due to an electrical fuse problem but the manufacturer (Chevrolet) already had a bulletin out.

Piston planes are dangerous.

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Ntoriuosly, senators and planes never seem to end well.

Small planes always grab a fair share of deaths in any group that uses them frequently -

• music stars (Buddy Holly, Jim Croce, Otis Redding, Patsy Cline, John Denver, etc.)
• athletes (Thurman Munson, Corey Lidle, Rocky Marciano, Roberto Clemente, Payne Stewart, etc.)
• politicians (Ted Stevens, Paul Wellstone Mel Carnahan, John Tower, etc.)
• Also lots of astronauts, business leaders, journalists, etc.

[ConservativeMan55]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/03/obama-reportedly-told-staff-hes-really-good-at-killing-people/