More detail on this person: Dad was a police
officer for the City of Huntington, Indiana. He
and a friend built identical experimental
aircrafts - the Snoopy Sidewinder I and II. As
the story goes, all of his police brothers wanted
to fly with him, but he was only rated for solo.
So he decided to strap a couple of bags of rock
salt into the passengers seat to get the feel for
additional weight. He flew right over our house
out in the country, then tried to go down and up
between two rows of trees. When the nose went
down, the bags of rock salt came free of the seat
belt and pushed the steering column, thus causing
the plane to dive. He was unable to recover and
drove it into the ground. The official cause of
death was smoke inhalation, as the plane caught
on fire when it crashed. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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