Anyone remember Jessica Dubroff?

Apr 11 1996

Jessica Dubroff, a 7-year-old pilot hoping to become the youngest American ever to fly coast-to-coast, is killed along with her father and flight instructor when their single-engine plane crashes on takeoff in Cheyenne, WY.

 

Yeah, she was not allowed to go to school and have friends. The only toys her crummy parents allowed her to play with were hammers and saws. Then they made her build furniture for the house with them.

She prolly crashed the plane on purpose to end her misery and escape her abusive parents.

 

Yeah...the little bugger once said in an interview that she wanted to be just like Amelia Earhart.

 

r u Ukrainian?

 

What I remember about this particular one was that the plane was not only overloaded, but also so iced up that Chuck Yeager himself could not have levitated it. (do I remember right that it was only a Cherokee 140 with three people in it and about a half ton of luggage?)

There was quite a rash of this kind of Guinness Book of Records stuntwork at the time, and it kind of died out after this got major media attention.

Same kind of people IMHO that want their kids to be movie stars because they couldn't make the grade themselves - does Michael Jackson's creepy father come to mind?

 

Yes, I remember. I have a pretty good memory considering that I'm old & senile.

 

Grandparents emigrated to Canada from Ukraine.

 

Yep.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9604/11/pilot.wrap/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Dubroff

http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2006/060411dubroff.html

RMX

 

Sad, stupid, and completely avoidable.

 

Vitannia z Ukrainy-nenki,do you know other fchatters speakin' Ukrainian?

 

Sorry, No Speaka the Language.

I grew up 550 miles from my grandmother. I never spent enough time with her to learn much.