Talk:Joe Clark (aeronautics)

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Thank you, User:CAWylie, for developing. About one thing, my interpretation of the Seattle Times source which you added is that he died at a hospital which is near Palm Springs, while it is not exactly clear whether his home is in or near Palm Springs. So I left it stating his home is in Palm Springs, which I am guessing is most likely (and in usual parlance it would be okay to say, whether strictly true according to city borders or not). --Doncram (talk) 19:22, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@Doncram: Thanks. I think the source originally stated he “died near his home in Palm Springs, almost immediately after suffering a fall Saturday”, all of which was vague and not true. We’ll blame the journalist’s phone for that, as he probably was working from home. Cheers. Wyliepedia @ 22:13, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for replying, User:CAWylie. Oh, so the Seattle Times article is itself a moving target? For the record, what I was interpreting, and what it now says, is: "Mr. Clark, 78, died Monday [March 30] at a hospital near Palm Springs, where he had a home." And that he was flying and later fell on Saturday, March 28. While the Puget Sound Business Journal source, dated Tuesday March 31, asserts that he was flying and fell and died all on Monday, which makes for a better(?) story. I tend believe the Seattle Times source more about dates because it has more detail and a more complex storyline. (Note to self, when i practice to deceive, give extra details.)

The other thing maybe not clear is where he fell. Or, well, maybe it is clear he fell on his driveway at his home (in or near Palm Springs). The Puget Sound article states "His sister Maggie Clark, an employee at Aviation Partners, said her brother had enjoyed a morning of flying and returned home in his car, but stumbled as he left the vehicle, fell and smashed his head on the pavement."

And here is its current sentence about all happening Monday: "He lived life in full throttle," said APiJet Chief Operating Officer Tom Gibbons, who is also president of Aviation Partners International. "He went flying in the morning and he was dead in the afternoon...." That could have been an innocent exaggeration / characterization for effect by Gibbons, that in effect he was dead upon falling, consistent with both(?) articles implying/stating he never woke up. --Doncram (talk) 22:31, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Maybe it was the Puget Sound source that I recall. I think I added the ST source because it actually gave Palm Springs as his home, because I know readers just need to know. (I was thinking it was Seattle.) I tend to believe his sister’s relating his death: flew Saturday, drove home, stumbled while exiting and receiving a head injury, and not recovering to die on Monday. More logical, as all that happening in one day seems rather unbelievable. Wyliepedia @ 23:36, 5 April 2020 (UTC)