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jmslsu01
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From the NY Post
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Jenn
|  Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 11/20/2005 at 12:16:16 PM ET
I read this this morning and found myself getting sad all over again.
(I guess I'm warning everyone that you might want to read this when you're feeling up to it.)
| jmslsu01
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Jean, I couldn't think of anything to write (actually, that's not true. I typed and deleted several times before giving up).
Jenn
| *Nicolette*
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Can someone post what it says becasue it's not letting me register for some reason.
|  MsPetersFan1
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COPTER TWIST
By PHILIP RECCHIA and MILENA DJURDJIC
November 20, 2005 -- The horrific helicopter crash that killed actress Bernadette Peters' husband two months ago in the Mediterranean was most likely the fault of the pilot, who had little experience maneuvering over mountainous terrain.
That's the conclusion of an investigation completed last week by aviation officials in Montenegro, where Michael Wittenberg died Sept. 27, along with the pilot and two other passengers. Wittenberg, a 43-year-old investment adviser for Salomon Smith Barney, was in the Balkan nation surveying report properties.
The aircraft fell spinning to the ground after its rotor blade struck a high-voltage power line.
The Federal Flying Control, which oversees aviation in Montenegro and Serbia, said in its report: "The expert commission has finished the investigation into the helicopter crash that killed four people in the gorge Susica on the Montenegrin mountain Durmitor.
"The results will be forwarded to Montenegrin judicial authorities, who will decide on the appropriate measures."
The official also said that the most probable cause of the accident was "the pilot's insufficient knowledge of the terrain he was flying over, and thus lack of necessary precaution."
Wittenberg and Peters, 57, were married in 1996 at the farm of close friend Mary Tyler Moore.
The beloved Broadway star liked to recount how the pair first met outside her Manhattan apartment building — and she was immediately smitten by the handsome financier.
A representative for Peters said the actress had no comment on the investigation.
~* Megan *~
|  Rose
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| posted: 11/20/2005 at 1:46:23 PM ET
Oh it's awful to read. Heatbreaking.
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance." -You'll Never Get Away From Me
"And if it wasn't for me then where would you be Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?" -Rose's Turn
|  GraceAnne
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New York, NY | posted: 11/20/2005 at 6:14:21 PM ET
gosh, i can't imagine what she must be going through. this is just so sudden and terrible, the way it happened. i still can't believe it.
| PTM
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Hmmm, I found one article that I think seemed to say that the power lines in that area weren't marked with blinking red lights or anything as required in other countries.
PTM
|  moljul
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| posted: 11/21/2005 at 10:53:43 AM ET
Michael hasn't worked for Smith Barney in quite some time. I think the reporter really should have worked a little harder on the background for the piece.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 11/21/2005 at 1:11:46 PM ET
The date of death is incorrect.
(report =resort)
sloppy
| moljul
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| posted: 11/21/2005 at 1:16:32 PM ET
Well it is the New York Post so I guess we can't expect much more than sloppy, sensationalized, only half true writing.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
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