That's Reed Pigman Jr. His dad (Reed Pigman Sr.) founded American Flyers, the airline contracted to fly the Beatles around the US during their 1964 North American tour. Of course, they owned the ranch where the Beatles rested for a day or two at the end of the tour. In April 1966, Reed Sr. was piloting the same plane used by the Beatles in '64 when it crashed. Pigman and most of the passengers and crew perished. Reed Jr. is still around, living in Fort Worth and running his own jet company.
And of course Reed Pigman senior had falsified his commercial pilot’s medical certificate for some years before his last, fatal crash that killed so many crew and young soldiers (over 80 of them) by failing to declare his long-standing heart disease and diabetes. He was found to be totally responsible for the disaster as he died at the controls of his Electra aircraft prior to landing at Ardmore OK causing the aircraft to crash. Reed Pigman Jnr presumably keeps this quiet ….
That's Reed Pigman Jr. His dad (Reed Pigman Sr.) founded American Flyers, the airline contracted to fly the Beatles around the US during their 1964 North American tour. Of course, they owned the ranch where the Beatles rested for a day or two at the end of the tour. In April 1966, Reed Sr. was piloting the same plane used by the Beatles in '64 when it crashed. Pigman and most of the passengers and crew perished. Reed Jr. is still around, living in Fort Worth and running his own jet company.
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