This was my favorite airplane from my old flying club:

http://www.pbase.com/geary/image/120224799

That's my mom and me when I took her flying on September 3, 1977. I have the logbook right here that I carried on that flight.

Sadly, this plane was involved in a midair in 1982, and the instructor and student pilot died:

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20020917X...

It's weird, if you sell a car and then it gets in a wreck and someone dies, you don't think about it much - or do you?

I guess you're not likely to find out it happened.

But it really shook me up that two people came to a tragic end in the same plane I used to fly.

R.I.P.