#plane crash
I set off to find a hidden WW2 plane crash on the northmost tip of Vancouver Island. Join me for a road trip as I take a break from fiction to tell the true story of the Dakota 576.
Blood stains are seen on snow at the site of a plane crash outside Almaty January 29, 2013. The passenger plane crashed in thick fog near Kazakhstan’s commercial capital Almaty on Tuesday and broke into pieces when it hit the ground, killing all 21 people on board.
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In my latest blog post, I talk about leaning into my greatest fears. When something scares the shit out of me, my reaction is to learn everything I can about it. It’s my way of bringing the monsters out of the dark and into the light.
https://www.danstalter.com/leaning-into-my-fears/
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In Loving Memory Dr. Mike Zareski, DVM.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF DR. MIKE ZARESKI, DVM
On Saturday, December 9th, 2017, a charter plane went down due to engine failure in Clairemont in San Diego county, California. The pilot attempted to land the small plane in a school yard. The plane was carrying three other passengers. The plane was successfully landed but the pilot was unable to control the speed or the brakes. The plane collided into a house and both the plane and house caught fire.
Thankfully, no one was inside the home at the time of the crash although the 16 year old poodle owned by the family who lived there was outside in the backyard. It’s unclear if the dog perished in the fire or if he got spooked and ran off and has yet to be recovered.
The pilot and the female passenger, Dr. Dawn Stelling, visiting from New York to attend a veterinary conference here in California, survived.
The other two passengers did not. Dr. Stelling’s husband, Robert, died on the scene. The other passenger on that plane who didn’t survive happened to be Dr. Mike Zareski, DVM - the owner and director of Western Veterinary Group in Torrance, California.
Dr. Mike, as he was known to clients and staff alike, was kind, understanding, compassionate, knowledgable. He was great with animals and people, alike. He had built Western Veterinary Group up from it’s original location at the old spay and neuter clinic in Lomita to buying out Crenshaw Veterinary Hospital and turing it into the revamped WV in Torrance across from the Crossroads Center on Crenshaw Boulevard. He had a great business sense and a knack for hiring exemplary veterinarians, vet techs and staff.
Any time we took one of our KD kitties in for either an exam or something more complex, if Dr. Mike was in, he’d come out to chat with us - even if he wasn’t our attending doctor that day. He made us feel like extended family - and we considered him as well as the entire staff at WV - as extended family in turn.
Dr. Mike was such a good man who did so much good for so many.
Kitty Devore Rescue was beyond devastated to learn this sad news yesterday and grieves the loss of Dr. Mike. We wish to extend our love and sympathy to his family as well as the staff of Western Veterinary Group. WV is a vet that many KD kitties have visited over the years and Dr. Mike was one of the best veterinarians around. We ache for the loss his wife and children must be feeling. We know he was loved by his staff and know they must be hurting, too. Our hearts goes out to all of them. This was a man who was too amazing to have left this earth so soon and too early.
Dr. Mike, you will be so very, very missed.
January 15, 1951 Civil aeronautics administration officials investigated a light plane crash near Stewart, Minn., in which two Sleepy Eye, Minn., men were killed. The crashed plane rests nose deep in snow on the farm of Clarence Erickson. The victims were Paul Lowinske, 55, and Arden Frederickson, about 30. Minneapolis Star Tribune & Buffalo Lake News
A Douglas DC-3 Dakota crashed on the roof of a house in Ruislip shortly after taking off from Northolt in December 1946. Miraculously, nobody was killed and everyone inside at the time made their escape through the front door.
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A ticket stub to Michael Todd’s Hall of Music, which sadly has no date. Thus I can only guess as to which Michael Todd theater incarnation this was from. One was during the 1933 Century of Progress World’s Fair. At that time he created a production called the “Flame Dance” where burners would singe off the dancer’s costume thus giving the perception that at the end she was nude. Post WWII Todd owned the Michael Todd Theatre (now the Harris and Selwyn Theaters in the Loop) which showed movies but on occasion would host a dance and music review. He also owned the Michael Todd’s Theatre Cafe in the Lake View neighborhood of Chicago. So, any one of those could be the source of this stub.
While his name is largely forgotten today, he was once very well known. Besides producing many theatre shows both in Chicago and in NYC, he was also in the movie business. He helped usher in widescreen and is best remembered for producing Around the World in 80 Days which won the Oscar for Best Picture. He is also known for marrying Elizabeth Taylor, and being the only husband she didn’t divorce. The reason for that lack of divorce might very well be the fact that in 1958 he died in a plane crash in New Mexico. The story goes that before takeoff he had tried to convince a few friends to join him on the flight, one of which was Kirk Douglas, so that he could have someone to play gin rummy. He was reported to have said "Ah, c'mon, It’s a good, safe plane. I wouldn’t let it crash. I’m taking along a picture of Elizabeth, and I wouldn’t let anything happen to her.“
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