Governmentese

[Laurence Horn]

Couldn't they blame it on gravity?

LH

On May 3, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> Official statement of  the ultimate cause of death, from the NATSB,
>
> "Pilot error: failed to maintain clearance above terrain."
>
> That is, the pilot, distracted, had allowed his plane to dive
> nose-first into the ground at a speed of 270m.p.h. The proximate cause
> of death was near-intantaneous deceleration that broke every bone and
> destroyed every organ in his body.
>
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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