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ANDY GREEN Dept. of Dumb Records. So what if a jet plane on wheels breaks the sound barrier? The Wrong Stuff...
...Denver made any mistakes--other than flying without a medical certificate. There's no evidence that he'd been drinking that day. "He was a solid pilot," says Tom Poberezny, president of the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wis. The man who recently sold Denver the nine-year-old plane says the singer took it up for two checkout flights before the final, fatal one. The investigation still being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board may test another theory: that Denver had a freak collision with a pelican. But unless the NTSB finds otherwise, Denver, his plane and experimental...
DIED. JOHN DENVER, 53, earnest singer-songwriter who composed sunny anthems to human goodness and nature's wonders; after crashing his homemade fiber-glass plane into Monterey Bay, Calif. Denver's road trips with the Chad Mitchell Trio inspired him to compose Leaving on a Jet Plane, a No. 1 hit for Peter, Paul and Mary in 1969. He went solo with equal success, charming audiences with his lyrical tenor and country-boy appeal. As he crooned Take Me Home, Country Roads and Sunshine on My Shoulders, he seemed to embody the peace-loving ethos of the 1970s. Offstage...
...seat jets. Says Michael Fletcher, a service engineer with Voith Sulzer PaperTechnology who travels frequently to Appleton: "This flight puts me in the heart of the papermaking industry in Wisconsin in minimal time." Given a choice, Fletcher prefers to fly on a jet. "When I get off the plane, I'm in much better shape," he says. "The difference is night and day. There's no debate about whether it's better." (Although the jets are more comfortable, there is no indication that they are any safer than turboprops...
...Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and let Comair offer service. "All our service now from St. Louis to Cincinnati is Comair service," says David Anderson, a Delta executive in Cincinnati. There are even some advantages to the smaller jets. Says Paffenroth: "This is every bit as quick as a large plane, and it loads and unloads much faster. And there are no middle seats...