And i just met him last month

68R/T

68R/T

I got drunk and swallowed my teeth, now
About a month ago, while I was in the midst of re-doing my upstairs bathroom, Jr & I took our motorcycles to the local home supplier. As we were getting ready to go, a very nice guy came up to us and started talking motorcycles. After about a half hour of jabber-jawing, I learn that he used to work with my brother-in-law and nephew and that I used to work with his sister Karen Boos, and also knew his brother Jeff.

Today I read in the local paper this; :(

http://www.argusleader.com/article/20090624/UPDATES/90624040/-1/updates
 
Bad ground indeed. As in holy shit, there is the ground! Bad! Bad! :(

I doubt it would have been a simple ground....planes glide better than most think. I used to watch my old man take off from our airstrip and wonder if he would come back.... I feel for the families. :(
 
I rode in a little prop plane when I was 5, the wife and husband both had licenses but wouldn't fly together "for the kids".
 
I believe the article said that the refurb and paint was in the last 4-5 years ago. As XL said, if the engine died they would have had a chance of gliding down to safety. :(
 
Today's newspaper stated that it appeared that they were attempting to land in the cornfield. They first touched down about 100 ft from the gravel road. maybe they didn't see the road until they were right upon it. :huh:
 
Just be glad you did meet him, I say. Even if only for a short while, you can't know enough quality people... life is short.
 
I have a short follow-up to this;

Jr. & I went to Tom Boos showing & funeral. After waiting in the procession line for almost 2 hours, (I guess he had made a lot of friends in life), we spoke with his wife and related to her how we had just met him the previous month at Menards. She replied that when he returned from Menards that day, he told her of meeting us. She thanked us deeply for relating how we had just met and for shining a little more light on the type of guy he was. Then she had us repeat the story 5 - 6 times for other relatives, who were all equally impressed.
Each time we would relate the story, the listener would grab another friend/relative and say, "You gotta hear this"

Like I told his wife, "The encounter was short, but memorable. I wish I had gotten to know him better." :(

R.I.P. & keep on soaring Tom.
 
You have no idea what your being there and retelling the story meant to his family. Bravo to you, 68R/T.
 
In my profession, we call them lawn darts. I just worked a coroners case two weeks ago. ywo more flying out of Mammoth area.

sorry for your loss

Dave
 
Update

NTSB: WI plane low on fuel when crashed in Iowa
By The Associated Press


DES MOINES — Federal aviation officials say a small plane that crashed in a corn field in northwest Iowa, killing all three Wisconsin men on board, was low on fuel.

In a report last week, the National Transportation Safety Board says the single-engine Piper had two 25-gallon fuel tanks. After the crash, investigators drained 1 cup of fuel from the tank under the left wing and 2½ cups from the tank under the right wing.

The plane crashed on June 23 near Sheldon in O'Brien County.

The three men on board — Francis Allegretti, of Cambridge, Wis., Thomas Boos, of Fort Atkinson, Wis., and Malcolm McMillan, of Milton, Wis. — were flying from Fort Atkinson to South Dakota on a hunting trip.
 
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