Spaw arrives in his usual tasteless self.....

I heard you talking about this on Rick's show last night Peter. I wondered then and now if you might have a point. We have had ample opps for songs of people croaking in planes from the long line of C-W stars to Ricky Nelson and Stan Rogers. I suppose "American Pie" touches on it to some degree. How about that "Major Tom" thing.....you know, "Ground control to Major Tom, You really are fucked up..." or whatever that thing was. For an episodic ballad, there is "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts?" Gawd knows its long enough if not completely clear as to what's going on.

The only air crash that I can think of where the pilots showed great heroism was the DC-10 at Sioux City. Not to say that others haven't shown heroism, but the advent of cockpit voice recorders have allowed us to see just how hopeless a situation can be and that often a pilot's last words are, "Oh shit." With "glass cockpits" in so many planes today (some are so aerodynamically unstable that they won't fly without the computerized avionics) the thought of a good ol' "Stick an' Rudder" guy fighting for control has been replaced by a poor slob trying to re-program the damn avionics as the plane flies into the ground. Not that the guy isn't heroic, its just that most of us can relate to recalcitrant computers "crashing" in the safety of our homes or offices and know he's screwed.

I dunno' Peter.......I think the field is pretty open. Go for it.

Spaw