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Payne Stewart's Fatal Crash | Flashback | NBC News

[@sloppygolf187]

I was a marshal in the Michelob Championship at Kingsmill tournament in Virginia the year before (98), and there was a hold up on the green (4th hole), so Payne and his caddie were standing in the fairway with us far away from the gallery, we talked for about ten minutes, they both seemed like really great guys. I was very impressed, most of the pros aren't that nice to the volunteers. He mentioned that this was a tough hole, and I told him he was going to birdie it. After he hits his shot very close to the pin, he turned around and walked over to me and gave me his golf glove (Top Flite) and said if he made that putt he would buy me a drink after the round. He made that putt for birdie, but I never went to the clubhouse after the round. I should have, would have been memorable. He seemed down to earth to me and not arrogant at all, and he and his caddie actually liked each other. It was a great moment, and he will always be my favorite golfer. He finished tied for fourth that year. RIP

[@PenelopeW]

Nice memory. Thanks for sharing.

[@julianca9380]

R.I.P Payne 1999 U.S. Open Champ 1990 RBC Heritage Winner 1999 Pebble Beach Pro Am Champ 1999 Ryder Cup Winner

[@lindastonebraker2512]

Wow the description of this video is dramatically different than the video shown

[@sean70729]

I always liked Payne Stewart he had his own unique style.

[@violetgolden3380]

40 below inside that plane. Wow. 🤯

[@user-dd1bb4tw4r]

They were dead before it got that cold or they would've decended. They passed out. RIP

[@ThiccGungan]

Might wanna fix that description. WTF?

[@DoubleMonoLR]

The video description is still utterly wrong.

[@michelleann533]

What a way to go out ...rip!

[@bravoRYT2018]

Imagine if I go back to 1999 and tell Payne Stewart not to ride the LearJet

[@gtxoiltastebad]

imagine if you can go back to 9/11 or jfk / or nasa space disaster. or baby hitler... Is it pointless wishful thinking time ?

[@dfwboxingisback9173]

It was so creepy. I remember when he was pronounced dead and the plane was still flying through the air.

[@gtxoiltastebad]

he was pronounced dead after it crashed fool

[@kless001]

@@gtxoiltastebad as of this writing 40 sheeple upvoted his comment even though it's clearly documented he wasn't pronounced dead until the crash.

[@evilkitsune9968]

@@kless001 he is wrong in saying prounced officially dead, but it nobody was alive before the crash. All the windows were completely frosted over and the cabin was dark. There had been no effort to clean it off. He was dead before the impact.

[@trentbergin3776]

ahhh 2014 when NBC news could not even get a simple youtube description correct

[@keithjacobson1640]

Happened very close to where I live in that area...

[@Cat_herders]

40 below. Wow.

[@CruceEntertainment]

Oh I get it….Payne Stewart was a Wall Street banker who used cocaine.

[@johnclark3697]

That Truelly defines THE PITS. so sad. I still don't get it! Payne sadly missed.why,why, WHY? Rip Payne.

[@Apseyboy]

I think the Airforce took it down once they knew all onboard were deceased,they wouldn't have risked it going down in a built up area for sure.

[@jameshoran8]

Agreed. When they found it was going to crash in a remote area of South Dakota, they left the jet alone to crash. They would have shot it done otherwise. Sad story for that years (1999) U.S.Open winner who was also nothing but total class at the Ryder Cup the month before he died.

[@paulvaughan3120]

James Horan if he was that good then how come he landed so badly in the rough here?

[@begottenclient6530]

@@paulvaughan3120 not funny

[@billygates7705]

Cheaper to shoot it Down than pay the Insurance Claim

[@mementomorgan6721]

Why is this recommended after Kobe Bryant died? 😳

[@sweiland75]

How could it have lost cabin pressure if the plane was not damaged?

[@shawnmurphy9667]

sweiland75 it’s likely it was due to the failure of an internal valve that controls cabin pressure. The pilots may also have forgotten to open the valve upon take off in order to pressurize the jet if this was the case they would’ve died shortly after from hypoxia. Also Could’ve been leaky window or door seals too. The exact cause has never been determined

[@FCLaney]

This also happened on a Boeing flight, in the inspection prior to take off the valve wasn’t set to decompress and shortly after take off the whole plane was knocked out but there was a flight attendant who made his way to the cockpit and guided the plane away from a busy area, flew for hours as a ghost plane

[@elkillerx]

@@FCLaney Wasn't that Helios Air Flight 522?

[@andrewbowen341]

44000 feet really?

[@user-dd1bb4tw4r]

Lost cabin pressure. Everybody was asleep and just kept climbing until it went down

[@user-dh1ck6qf3k]

So incredibly sad. The pilots the moment the alarm went off all they had to do was reach for the oxygen masks and they probably could’ve just landed the plane. So incredibly sad.

[@TheHexeract]

Why didn't those oxygen masks drop down?

[@gogreen7794]

There obviously aren't any in the Lear.

[@ensignmjs7058]

Jet pilot be cute.

[@gregsealey4973]

On his jet just sky.. So make your own minds Up

[@kennethreynolds7288]

Very suspicious the whole story imo

[@commonsense31]

It seems to me that letting a uncontrolled plane continuing flying seems very dangerous! When that F16 was bingo on fuel another one should have taken over. And when it came down to it, and a crash is imminent they would be able to control the crash site to a degree!

[@CorettaJG]

Read up. Multiple Air Force aircraft flew nearby before the crash.

[@nicoler3499]

Gnarly 😬

[@aa91504]

They were murdered,,

[@Dollar_Menu]

😢

[@gregsealey4973]

For him to say what he said at the end..they were alive and he seen them.. That's why no footage of plane..

[@williamcarr442]

I have watch and re-watched videos, read and re-read news articles and interviews of this 1999 tragedy. Something doesn't ring true. It just doesn't add up. Yes, it happens. A French high performance plane with husband and wife onboard suffered hypoxia and crashed in the Caribbean near Jamaica. Certainly catastrophic failure of high performance airplanes at high altitudes is a MAJOR concern for pilots. The fact that Mrs. Stewart was troubled by a faxed instruction for Payne to report to the Orlando airport to a private Lear Jet, then instructions that there was a problem with that Lear, that the flight was on hold and then another new Lear found so that the original instructions stood should have had the pilot and co-pilot quite leery of ANY and ALL potential problems with either plane. Mrs. Stewart said that she wondered afterward why Payne had not flown his own aircraft to Dallas instead or taken a standard commercial flight to Love Field. On board with Payne was Arnold Palmer's golf course designer, Bruce Borland, Payne's two agents Van Arden and Robert Fraley, pilot Michael Kling and co-pilot, Stephanie Bellegarrigue. How much was known after the tragedy about every conceivable connection and each passenger's personal history? Would anyone or any group have benefited from the deaths? How? I read and saw online that Payne had a bracelet on his wrist that read WWJD...."What would Jesus do?" Having played golf at SMU in Dallas and flying to Dallas as guest of Jeff Blackard who is a close business associate of Tom Hicks, GWB's partner with Richard Rainwater and others in the Texas Rangers, with Hicks as GWB's pick to lead the University of Texas' multi-billion-dollar endowment into private hands, think of what's chiseled in the UT Administration Building....probably somewhere at SMU, too....."Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." I often think about when I recall that Admiral William McRaven passes that carving nearly every day now....and when I think of how in 1988, the same year that Pan Am 103 went down over Lockerbie carrying Matthew Gannon who was returning to Washington to ask why he was so uninformed about Al Qaeda when he should have been highly aware. 1988, the same year that Salem Bin Laden, the elder brother of Osama Bin Laden, died in an ultralight airplane crash on the Field of Dream Airport owned by the in-laws of General Bruce Carlson, Commander of Offutt AFB and the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) whose "games" on 911 had the effect of standing down NORAD...that actually did a remarkable job of intercepting Payne's and the other's death flight. Carlson's mother-in-law had been an Executive Assistant at Beech, the same company whose president was Linden Blue, chief exe at Lear Jet and whose Global Atomic created the Predator and Reaper drones.....the business partner in Nicaragua of brutal dictator, Anastosio Samoza Salem was an experienced jet fighter pilot of the highest order. After he inexplicably flew a borrowed ultralight up and into a high power line at Cibolo, Texas he died at Brooks Army Medical Center while CBS 60's Minutes star reporter of THE INSIDER fame, Lowell Bergman, falsely reported that Salem died in his BAC-111 jet.....a story that Bergman took months to correct. Maybe its nothing but a tragic accident. A faulty repair. A broken weld. Pilots not as vigilant as they should or could have been about the sudden dangers and the remedies they surely rehearsed many times. Still, WWJD?

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

You don't know what you're talking about and it shows

[@shahminhajuddin]

Daymn!!!!!

[@lindastonebraker2512]

This is why I won't drink and post😉

[@CorettaJG]

Gibberish

[@nicoler3499]

Life is a paradox of mirrors 😂😬

[@jameshoran8]

Came here because of Kobe Bryant. Today, NBC would blame the crash on Trump.