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Man Behind Aviation Web Site Dies In Plane Crash
Paulo Emanuele Of Airliners.Net Killed In Calif.
POSTED: 8:55 am MST January 29,
2009
UPDATED: 3:58 pm MST January 29,
2009
The general manager of one of the most popular aviation sites on the Web has died in a California plane crash.Paulo Emanuele, the new owner of Airliners.net, and another person died when his Marchetti F260 acrobatic plane lost power and crashed while attempting to return to the Santa Monica airport at about 5 p.m.The plane burned on impact, airport officials said.
Fans of the Airliners.net Web site were posting tributes to his memory Thursday.Emanuele is survived by his wife and two daughters.The second person in the plane has not been identified.
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