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Gabriel Piedrahita '96 was one of several hundred people killed when American Airlines Flight 965 crashed into the side of a mountain outside of Cali, Colombia. If Gabriel were not on the plane, the crash would be just one more evening news tragedy that claimed more faceless victims, that created more faceless orphans and widows and widowers...
Maybe something could touch him; the 1987 death of his son Dean Paul in an Air National Guard plane crash cued more drinking in Martin, more severe solitude. With three marriages far behind him, he spent his final years dining alone nightly at an Italian eatery in Beverly Hills. At home this past Christmas Eve, he was attended only by a nurse. She gave him a last drink--water!--and he died. No grieving, please: the cowboy crooner finally rode off into the oblivion he always seemed to crave. And, as Dino might have observed, it beats working...
Authorities said a full investigation into the causes of the crash would not be completed for months...
...report released by the Colombian government last Friday after a review of a transcript of the cockpit conversation during the half-hour before the crash indicated that it may have been the result of human error...
...report ruled out sabotage, bad weather, language difficulties and a malfunction of the Boeing 757's systems as possible causes of the crash...