Cal Poly Crash 50 years later

[Moderator1]

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I've tried not to bombard everyone here with stuff, but one of my crew, John Walters, did a story today on the 50th anniversary of the Cal Poly plane crash. I didn't know much about the crash before. I suspect most on here weren't yet born.

http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/10/29/fifty-years-later-plenty-of-pain-lingers-from-cal-poly-plane-cr/

 

[old_tony]

Great story. Great ending line.

And, Moddy, you never have to apologize for or justify linking a story from FanHouse here. You have near-universal respect here. To those you don't have it from, f**k 'em.

 

[Football_Bat]

We've been very fortunate not to have had a major team crash since the Oklahoma State one 10 years ago, and that one only killed 2 players. We had the Evansville one and the Wichita State and Marshall ones in the 1970s.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

We've been very fortunate not to have had a major team crash since the Oklahoma State one 10 years ago, and that one only killed 2 players. We had the Evansville one and the Wichita State and Marshall ones in the 1970s.

Which reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry and George are discussing all the sports teams that fly, and how strange it is that the planes never crash.

That was an excellent story, Moddy.

 

[MileHigh]

Good stuff. And Diane Pucin in the L.A. Times also did a very good story on the anniversary.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-cal-poly-crash-20101029,0,5138340,full.story

And it's a pet peeve of mine, but it's Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, or Cal Poly SLO. Because there's a second Cal Poly, in Pomona.

 

[YankeeFan]

I was unfamiliar with this story and appreciated it. At one point, it gave me chills.

It's 50 years old & it also still pissed me off. Like the ND incident this week, it was entirely avoidable.

And, even before it was mentioned, I was struck by how many survivors had become coaches and/or educators.