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Washington, DC Air Florida Crash of January 13, 1982
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rodney...@gmail.com
Jan 24, 2008, 9:50:24 PM1/24/08
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This evening I watched the Weather Channel show about this tragedy
that killed 78 and that was caused by a snowstorm and pilot error.
That led me to this NY Times article of August 4, 2002 --
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E6DA143BF937A3575BC0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
The article mentions that one of the victims was Robert Silberglied,
who was a 35-year-old scientist at Harvard, a protégé of E.O. Wilson,
the famous biologist. Silberglied's passion since boyhood had been
butterflies -- his Ph.D. thesis was on butterfly communication. On
the day of his funeral, his sister Joan went outside for a cigarette.
The grounds, she says, were almost desolate, but as she sat there, a
small yellow butterfly came up out of nowhere and hit her in the face.
As it fluttered away, Joan says, these words formed in her mind: "Bye,
Bob."
that killed 78 and that was caused by a snowstorm and pilot error.
That led me to this NY Times article of August 4, 2002 --
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E6DA143BF937A3575BC0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
The article mentions that one of the victims was Robert Silberglied,
who was a 35-year-old scientist at Harvard, a protégé of E.O. Wilson,
the famous biologist. Silberglied's passion since boyhood had been
butterflies -- his Ph.D. thesis was on butterfly communication. On
the day of his funeral, his sister Joan went outside for a cigarette.
The grounds, she says, were almost desolate, but as she sat there, a
small yellow butterfly came up out of nowhere and hit her in the face.
As it fluttered away, Joan says, these words formed in her mind: "Bye,
Bob."
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