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2021-11-13 -Obits-

New Jersey plane crash kills Blue Origin astronaut who flew with William Shatner

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 "I have information tying Jeff Bezos, Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein...." *BOOM*

Posted by Frank G 2021-11-13 07:57|| 2021-11-13 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought he wore a blue shirt?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-13 08:41|| 2021-11-13 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 To be a bona fide mega donor, you have to give millions in total to PACs or individual politicians. This guy gave hundreds of thousands to the Dems for the 2020 election cycle. Not mega, but still a fairly big fish.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2021-11-13 10:50|| 2021-11-13 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I assumed Mr. deVries was a trained astronaut, not tourist cargo. The Daily Mail fleshes out that report with key details:

Multi-millionaire businessman, 48, who launched into space with William Shatner on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket last month dies learning to fly

Glen de Vries, 49, who flew into space with William Shatner last month died in a plane crash in Sussex County, New Jersey on Thursday

He was flying in a small, single engine plane with Thomas Fischer, 54, of Fischer Aviation when the plane went down around 3 p.m.

Police and the FAA are currently investigating why the plane crashed

Vries made his fortune through Medidata Solutions, which has managed more than 25,000 clinical trials involving more than seven million patients

According to the Sun, he’s a software almost-billionaire.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-13 12:44|| 2021-11-13 12:44|| Front Page Top

#5 The angel of death had missed his connecting flight on Southwest and got turned around. Oops.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-11-13 13:23|| 2021-11-13 13:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Police and the FAA are currently investigating why the plane crashed

Gravity is a persistent bitch

Posted by Frank G 2021-11-13 13:32|| 2021-11-13 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Vries made his fortune through Medidata Solutions, which has managed more than 25,000 clinical trials involving more than seven million patients

I wonder if that company is in any way tied into the one in Britain that was having problems...

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-11-13 13:58|| 2021-11-13 13:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Training accident.

I've had students do some pretty whacky things. Being taken by surprise or coming late to the party can be fatal.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-11-13 20:27|| 2021-11-13 20:27|| Front Page Top

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