"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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Terrible story that basically boils down to the fact that if his wife
hadn't bitched and let him learn to fly he would probably be alive today.

Any number of things, including having shown up at the airport that day
just a little earlier or a little later, would likely have changed the
outcome.

However, I know lots of people who *are* pilots who still do stuff like
standing around watching *other* pilots fly. I see no reason to suggest
that this guy lost his life *because* he wasn't a pilot. That's just
absurd. He could just as easily have been standing where he was whether
or not he was a pilot.

Pete



Hence the modifier "probably." And if he had have died anyway he would have
at least done it after he had spent many, many hours doing something that he
obviously dreamed about doing.