{"id":1114,"date":"2007-07-30T04:35:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T09:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2007-07-30T04:35:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T09:35:31","slug":"double-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Double Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m passingly familiar with Gerald Beck of Wahpeton, ND; plane geek that I am, I knew that he restored old warplanes.<\/p>\n<p>So his death at the Oshkosh Air Show on Friday was a dual tragedy;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gerald S. Beck was killed in the crash of two P-51 Mustangs, single-seat fighters used in World War II, said Dick Knapinski, a spokesman for the Experimental Aircraft Association, which puts on the weeklong air show called AirVenture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/photo\/2007\/07\/28\/PH2007072800409.jpg\" width=\"413\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other pilot involved in the crash, Casey Odegaard, 24, Kindred, N.D., suffered minor injuries&#8230;Witnesses said one plane was behind the other, and when its propeller hit the tail of the other plane, it flipped up and over the other aircraft, landing upside down in a fireball.<script>  function photoFull (URL) {  day = new Date();  id = day.getTime();  eval(\"page\" + id + \" = window.open(URL, '\" + id + \"', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=510,height=510,left = 137,top = 84');\");  }  <\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My condolences to the Becks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m passingly familiar with Gerald Beck of Wahpeton, ND; plane geek that I am, I knew that he restored old warplanes. So his death at the Oshkosh Air Show on Friday was a dual tragedy; Gerald S. Beck was killed in the crash of two P-51 Mustangs, single-seat fighters used in World War II, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}