angel pilot touched all
tommyI’m sure you heard about the Angel Flight pilot who’s plane crashed late last week at Vandenburg Airport. As part of the Angel Flight program, Sun City Center resident Harlan E. Northcott was preparing to fly a cancer patient and a teenage friend of her family to Suart on Thursday, when the plane hit an antenna and crashed on takeoff, killing all three.
A memorial service was held Sunday, and everyone had so many nice things to say about the man everyone called “Lanny.” We received this email from a friend of Harlan’s son-in-law:
I don’t know if you heard about the plane crash out at Vandenberg Airport
or not, but I just wanted to say, it was the father in law of a friend of
mine in New Orleans, he had this comment ….“What a very sad day indeed. My FIL was a very special guy. He went from growing up in a cardboard house in Caifornia to a self made millionaire. He never frogot where he started out. He died flying a cancer patient and a 15 year old. He donated hi time, his plane, and a great deal of money to help sick people that lack the necessary funds to travel for treatment. He was in the Navy at the end of world war II and graduated from Old Miss. After his service he got into the oil business as a petrolium geologist. He sought out and found investors to back a company and Northcott Exploration was born. He would end up selling that company to Tidewater Marine where he bceame an Executive VP in charge of several operations. Even after retirement his ablity to do his job led him to a lot of work as a
consultant. He loved to fly and was one of the main people responsible for my Education and trainging as a professional pilot. Even though he was my wife’s stepfather, he treated us like family. Especially my boys. They loved their “paw-paw lanny” very much and it kills me to watch them break down about it. I’ll say this. The world has lost a truely uniqe man today. I
am……. very sad now…. “
Sounds like we all lost a great guy…
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