The show must go on...
I don't know what was stranger in this bit of necrological news...
The fact that the e-headline reads like an anonymous chap just died (and such wasn't the case - the deceased was a CFL pro-athlete. Granted, in Toronto, they only care about the Blue Jays, Maple Leafs (in that order right now) and then the Argonauts - and it is true that this was a former Montreal Alouettes and Saskatchewan Roughriders player...
Still...)
Or the fact that, despite the tragic -and fatal- small aircraft crash, the scheduled air show will go on as scheduled.
As if this was only a minor technical mishap or something...
And I thought only Vince McMahon had done something like this (in the infamous Owen Hart accidental death event... on Pay Per View).
Only two things are sure in life indeed: death and taxes. If there is a third, it would be human insensitivity... or outright stupidity.
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posted by Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™ @ 11:44 PM
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Toronto man killed in jet crash at Ottawa air show
Last updated Jun 16 2006 02:04 PM EDT
CBC News
A former Canadian Football League player from Toronto was killed Friday when his small, home-built airplane crashed at an airport west of Ottawa.
Scott Manning died when his BD-5 jet, nicknamed "Stinger," hit the ground at the Carp Airport at 12:14 p.m.
Manning had been scheduled to perform in the single-seat airplane at Air Show Ottawa this weekend.
Eyewitness David Morgan-Kirby was standing at the end of the runway watching the microjet when it crashed.
"He was just doing a sort of pre-air-show display," Morgan-Kirby said.
"The engine was still running when he hit the ground, and it ran for another two or three seconds afterwards."
The BD-5 is often described as the world's smallest jet. The one flown by Manning was one of just six BD-5s in the world.
BD-5s have been used for secret radar testing for the U. S. government, and one was featured in the James Bond film Octopussy.
Manning, who lived in Toronto, played football for the Montreal Alouettes and the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
At 6' 3" and 215 pounds, he was known as the world's tallest BD-5 pilot.
Manning held a commercial pilot's licence and had flown numerous types of airplanes, including some of the most advanced aerobatic aircraft.
Whitney Zelmer, a spokesman for Air Show Ottawa, confirmed that Manning was the pilot killed in Friday's crash.
Zelmer said the air show would go ahead as planned on Saturday.
R.I.P.
Scott Manning
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