More detail on this person: Auto accident.Jerry
was in his Corvette, and one of his students was
on a motorcycle. They had left Ft. Rucker late at
night, enroute to Enterprise, on the 4-lane
highway. They were racing, apparently Jerry in the
outside lane, the m/c in the inside lane. At a
high speed, Jerry's right front tire blew. The
highway was in a cut section, with the right
shoulder on a rising slope. Jerry's Corvette
veered right; the rising slope launched him
airborne, clipping a power pole, through the lower
branches of a tree, and he slammed into the brick
chimney of a house. The power pole supported a
cable that went over the highway. As the power
pole fell, the attached cable fell, and caught the
student (in his neck or upper body), and he was
also killed.
The Enterprise paper had an article with a picture
of the remains of the Corvette -- hardly
recognizable. The article described the accident
in superlative terms. I've misplaced the
article.
(Jerry and I had been in the 176th, 70-71; In the
late 70s, Jerry showed up in Ark., and flew with
us in the Ark. ARNG. He was doing some CFI and
charter work for an FBO at LR Arpt. After a while,
he decided to go active, and went to Rucker as an
IP (night contact??). His death was a little
tragic. After a couple of years at Rucker, he was
finally getting some stability, and things were
smooth. He bought a condo in Enterprise, bought a
Corvette (and a Sportster), and became engaged --
to a very nice girl, I might add.
From: Robert Fureigh
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