A group of vintage aircraft pilots were promoting a new IMAX movie the best way possible — by taking members of the media for a ride around Washington DC today.
Then one flipped on landing and the upcoming movie wasn’t the story anymore.
A Washington Post reporter was on board the plane.
NPR’s Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan was on another plane, but was not hurt.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins