Indeed, his premonition came true.
The friend told him that he suspected that mutual friend, and pilot, Bradley Guy Marzari had been killed when the 1960 Focke-Wulf FWP-149D plane he was piloting crashed in a field on private land in Killeen, approximately 2.25 miles shy of Runway 1 at Skylark Field. Officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed that fact not long after.
Killeen police, some of the first responders on the scene, said Marzari, a 60-year-old Belton resident, was flying from New Braunfels to Skylark Field.
âIn the aviation community, some people know a person that died in a crash, and some people donât,â Flight said via phone Tuesday. â. When you know the person it just hits you in a completely different way â it hits you much harder.â
Welcome to Episode 74 of the #PaxEx Podcast, which tracks the evolution of the airline passenger experience.
In this episode, available on Apple and Google Podcasts, co-hosts Max Flight and Mary Kirby consider whether the aviation industry is poised for a faster-than-expected recovery given the extraordinary pent-up demand for air travel. They discuss
IATA’s latest survey, which suggests that people will fly once they receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
But has the pandemic reset our passenger experience expectations?
Next,
Cathay Pacific’s decisionto let first and business passengers remove their masks when sleeping in the lie-flat position has generated a mixed response from readers. Some reckon that it makes common sense, others see it as classist and unfair. Mary and Max explore both sides of the argument.