Wife confirms man killed in plane crash is Senate candidate

[jmowreader]

15. Very sad, but politics almost certainly hasn't anything to do with it

First problem: Butzier was a nonentity in the race. Let's be real: up until right now had you even heard his name? The pollsters weren't asking about him. He was giving it the good old college try and we must respect that. It wouldn't be worth either candidate's time or money to bump him off.

Second problem: the plane he was flying. According to http://time.com/3507067/iowa-senate-candidate-plane-crash-doug-butzier/ he flew a Piper PA 46-310B. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-46, this model was made between 1982 and 1986, and has a Continental engine. In 1986, they discontinued this model because the engines caused a series of "incidents and accidents."

So let me see...a candidate no one was planning to vote for anyway falls out of the sky in a model of plane known for doing that very thing. He was also a physician, a subset of humanity famous for dying in single-person plane crashes - they work so hard and take off so little time for personal life they forget the little nuances of flight, and when a routine problem guys who fly a lot would be able to easily manage happens, they get overwhelmed and fly the thing into the ground.

I think the guy just died in a non-extraordinary plane crash, and his status as a Senate candidate had nothing to do with it.