Not to mention;
In no particular order, but I sense a patten......Aircrashes and famous people :-?
Famous people tend to travel by air far more than the average person. I haven't checked but most of the above died in fixed-wing aircraft flown by professional pilots.
Actually Hagar, I was very surprised how many of that list died at their own hand. As for famous people tend to travel by air, you are quite right, however, there are a very few that have died on commercial aircraft. The vast majority, if not all have been killed on private flights or flying there own aircraft. That was the point I was trying to make.
Matt
I must admit to being surprised by a couple of them. The point I was trying to make was that most of them were not flying the aircraft they died in. For example, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens & the Big Bopper died in a small chartered aircraft flown by a professional pilot. The same goes for Jim Croce, Audie Murphy, Rocky Marciano & Otis Redding. The common denominator here seems to be bad weather conditions rather than the fact that they happened to be famous.
EDIT: Speaking of which, ARE there any airport communities in the UK?
Not to my knowledge. The UK is a very small country & there are far more private pilots in the US. However, there are many small private airstrips where a few aircraft are based although the aircraft owners do not usually live there. One example of these is
Deanland which is a former ALG (Advanced Landing Ground) built for the D-Day invasion in 1944.
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