Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders dies in a plane crash
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Retired NASA astronaut Bill Anders who took the iconic Earthrise photo from Apollo 8 has sadly passed away in a private plane accident.
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Bill Anders, Apollo 8, RIP
Sad to hear Bill Anders has died in a light aircraft crash in Washington State on Friday 7th June. Aged 90, he was flying alone in a Beech T-34. I think the Apollo 8 crew were the last still complete...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw99wj5e5q8o
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw99wj5e5q8o
Sad news. A local station has video of it; possibly performing a loop.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/l...prUoT7-Jzy2p2Z
A/c was a Beach T-34 owned via their museum, N268AF:
https://heritageflight.org/aircraft/beechcraft-t-34/
https://www.king5.com/article/news/l...prUoT7-Jzy2p2Z
A/c was a Beach T-34 owned via their museum, N268AF:
https://heritageflight.org/aircraft/beechcraft-t-34/
Sad to hear Bill Anders has died in a light aircraft crash in Washington State on Friday 7th June. Aged 90, he was flying alone in a Beech T-34. I think the Apollo 8 crew were the last still complete...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw99wj5e5q8o
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw99wj5e5q8o
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Ah, I'd forgotten Borman had died...
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William Anders, ex-astronaut
Not sure if this belongs here, taken from Isle of Man news oddly. Another plummet.
https://www.manxradio.com/news/world...n-plane-crash/
William Anders, 90, was the only person aboard the small aircraft he was piloting when it plummeted off the coast of Jones Island, near Washington state, on Friday.'
https://www.manxradio.com/news/world...n-plane-crash/
William Anders, 90, was the only person aboard the small aircraft he was piloting when it plummeted off the coast of Jones Island, near Washington state, on Friday.'
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Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders dies in a plane crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw99wj5e5q8o
Former astronaut Bill Anders, who in 1968 was part of the crew of Apollo 8 that made the first trip to the Moon and took the famous ‘earth rise’ photograph has died. He was killed when the aircraft he was flying crashed into the sea, it appears while performing aerobatics. He was 90 years old.
I think it says much about him and the type of person selected to be astronauts in the 1960s that he was still flying aeros at his age.
RIP, sir, your actions touched the world and your photo prompted the environmental movement.
Former astronaut Bill Anders, who in 1968 was part of the crew of Apollo 8 that made the first trip to the Moon and took the famous ‘earth rise’ photograph has died. He was killed when the aircraft he was flying crashed into the sea, it appears while performing aerobatics. He was 90 years old.
I think it says much about him and the type of person selected to be astronauts in the 1960s that he was still flying aeros at his age.
RIP, sir, your actions touched the world and your photo prompted the environmental movement.
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The Apollo 8 'moon show' over Christmas 1968 was brilliant! I'd escaped from RAFC Cranwell for Christmas and was glued to the TV watching James Burke and Patrick Moore's commentary:
Footage appears to me to be a medical or control issue, no real attempt to flatten out. If that's the way he went then I think all true aviators would wish him the best for going the best way possible.
Yup, I was thinking that he wouldn't have wanted to go any other way.
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On the face of it that's as clear a case of a misjudged attempt at thoroughly ill-advised and totally unnecessary dangerously low-level aeros as you'll ever see. Same old same old. But for a 90yr old to be doing that? Even less wise.
Vale Bill Anders, one of the greats.
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I guess my knowledge is not genuine. I fly split Ss and other aerobatics at much higher altitude and pretty much what I saw was it was too low. Maybe you could enlighten us.
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