This is an interesting story. In 1980 my cousin while working with his Father harvesting grain in the San Joaquin Valley (Northern California) witnessed a small twin engine airplane crash on a remote landing strip. The pilot was killed in the crash. A few days later he found the flight book, with the name of the pilot and last known address. He wrote to the address with no replies, the crash was featured in the local newspaper but no family information was given.
He put it in his desk and over the years tried to find the family every so often but had little to no luck. This last week, on the advice of his sister, decided to post the all the information he had on this person, in the efforts someone would recognize the name or know this person or family (long shot) With in a few minutes a lady on his friends list picked up the name of the person and threw two web sites had a match in less than two days. He contact the pilots daughter, she was 11 years old at the time of the crash. They exchanged contact information talked on the phone, and the flight book is on its finial flight back to his daughter.
Can you imagine what it was like to get an email about this 31 years after the death of your father? What range of emotions that had to be. I contacted the local newspaper about this in the interest they will want to have a followup story on it.
He put it in his desk and over the years tried to find the family every so often but had little to no luck. This last week, on the advice of his sister, decided to post the all the information he had on this person, in the efforts someone would recognize the name or know this person or family (long shot) With in a few minutes a lady on his friends list picked up the name of the person and threw two web sites had a match in less than two days. He contact the pilots daughter, she was 11 years old at the time of the crash. They exchanged contact information talked on the phone, and the flight book is on its finial flight back to his daughter.
Can you imagine what it was like to get an email about this 31 years after the death of your father? What range of emotions that had to be. I contacted the local newspaper about this in the interest they will want to have a followup story on it.
