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Former U.S. senator Stevens dies in crash; former NASA chief survives - CNN.com

Stevens and four others killed - ex NASA chief Sean O' Keefe was on board too, but survived.

Ted lived the last 32 years on borrowed time, he survived a plane crash that took his first wife. It is a scary way to go.

Glad to hear O'Keefe lived.

So...his life went down the tubes?

Totally Tubular?

Perhaps this is the Internet striking back against the Google/Verizon announcement?

NASA director O'Keefe survived, it is said, by actually being on a sound stage in Arizona at the time.

It might be a good time to invest in producing more float planes for Alaska. Most of the ones up there are 40+ years old. This one that crashed had a turboprop attached to a plane designed around a radial engine.

Likely the pilot happily flew the plane into the the side of a hill, never seeing the hill jump out in front of the aircraft.

The Seattle Times may have just won the Internets, earned the "Worst People in the World" award for today, defiled a man's memory, and insulted Alaska in a single breath. :shock:

Seattle Times Defiles Memory Of Ted Stevens, Sarah Palin’s Best Friend

I must admit, I LOL'd

an unintentional double entendre for a headline is not discrediting his memory. an expose about how crooked he was and how much he porked the budget... would be defiling his memory. No, that's just history. If some one like Beck but on the left did the "he raped and murdered a 11 year old girl" routine... that is defiling his memory.

That being said, the headline is hilarious.

It's sort of too bad that all people are going to remember him for (outside Alaska, that is) is the "series of tubes" remark.

Well, that and the criminal charges.

GasBandit said:

Well, that and the criminal charges.

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Most people aren't going to remember those, if they know about them.