When his plane crashed (a forced crash, many believe, by possibly the military -- with the three passengers safe and sound elsewhere), who else remembers MSM saying that he didn't have enough flight experience? As always with the MSM, that was a lie. According to Christina Haag, in her memoir, "Come to the Edge," she writes this about a time when they lived in L.A. together, many years before the crash:
"He went up with an instructor most Saturdays and always came back happy. When he was ready to do a solo landing on Catalina Island, he pressed me to come along. A tricky descent, he said, excited--downdrafts and a slim, pitted runway on top of a 1,602-foot mesa. ... He turned the plane, and soon we were over water. Near a sheer cliff with the runway in sight, the plane began to shake. He was afraid of stalling, but when the instructor reminded him of something, John leveled the wings and the landing was easy. ... Even I, who knew nothing about planes, could tell how well he had done."