Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009, RIP

I'm sure he'll find a new dance partner pretty quick.
 
Pancreatic - a foregone conclusion. I know someone who actually survived it (over 10 yrs now). One of a very small group.

Swayze seemed like a decent Joe, not your typical Hollywood arsehole. Married to his sweetheart for decades. WHy him, and not one of the numerous idiots who inhabit Hollywood??
 
flyersfan31 said:
Pancreatic - a foregone conclusion. I know someone who actually survived it (over 10 yrs now). One of a very small group.

Swayze seemed like a decent Joe, not your typical Hollywood arsehole. Married to his sweetheart for decades. WHy him, and not one of the numerous idiots who inhabit Hollywood??
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My Dad didn't. Nuff said. Patrick seemed like one of the good ones. He'll be missed.
 
gprellwitz said:
My Dad didn't. Nuff said. Patrick seemed like one of the good ones. He'll be missed.
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Nor did my mother-in-law. It's a very painful one as well. Making a movie while dying of pancreatic cancer? He had a brass pair. Tailwinds, Mr. Swayze.
 
What a fight he put up!
A tough hombre, and a real movie star in the old tradition, not just some handsome guy who was in the movies.
 
Pancreatic C is one of the really bad ones, and it doesn't get anywhere near the attention it deserves. Let's face it, Breast Cancer has a LOT of media attention. So does Lung Cancer, but the media not always assumes that it's due to smoking, which isn't always the case.
 
RIP. He seemed like a decent guy.

To keep this avaition related, didn't he fly a Cessna 414 and land it in a residential neighborhood once?
 
I heard on the radio his wife was a pilot too and would fly him to his treatments. That's aviation-related, right? ;)
 
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Wolverines!!!
 
Yeah, thought I remembered that.

PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — A small plane piloted by actor Patrick Swayze made an emergency landing and clipped a wing on an empty street in central Arizona on Thursday. Swayze was not injured.

Swayze was flying a 1978 twin-engine Cessna 414A from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, N.M., when he was forced to make an emergency landing, said John Clabes, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
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http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/02/news/mn-36618
 
Problem with cancer is that it's actually a slew of diseases, many of which are now curable or at least manageable. Pancreatic just isn't on that list yet. Just goes to show you that no one is immune from an early demise, no matter how rich or how good-looking.

RIP.
 
I always thought he was underrated as an actor. And his wife was a gem - I figured if she stuck with him then he must have been a good man. I didn't know she was a pilot, though.
 
Very sad. Cancer is a really nasty illness, and we need to find a cure!
 
Very sad news... blue skies and tailwinds on your journey West, Captain Swayze!
 
DawnW said:
I heard on the radio his wife was a pilot too and would fly him to his treatments. That's aviation-related, right? ;)
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RIP, dude!

Yes, both he and his wife were pilots, though I was once told he had lost his medical a while back.

My sim partner at CAE Simuflite was his pilot. Said a lot of good things about him and his wife. His wife would often fly shotgun in their King Air.
 
I read the NTSB report, which seemed extremely generous to Mr. Swayze. The police report was more interesting. Emergency landing because he lost pressurization? Disappearing for 12 hours to avoid a positive for alcohol? Witnesses who claim to have helped remove a half empty "30-pack" of beer and a bottle of wine from the plane?

I'm sure he was a fine actor and all around nice guy, but it seems to me he got away with something lesser mortals wouldn't have.
 
Steve Job said:
I read the NTSB report, which seemed extremely generous to Mr. Swayze. The police report was more interesting. Emergency landing because he lost pressurization? Disappearing for 12 hours to avoid a positive for alcohol? Witnesses who claim to have helped remove a half empty "30-pack" of beer and a bottle of wine from the plane?

I'm sure he was a fine actor and all around nice guy, but it seems to me he got away with something lesser mortals wouldn't have.
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I read a warm 30-pack of beer from the wing locker and the wine from underneath a rear seat. It's not unusual to have alcohol in this type of plane for passengers. I'll admit that his confusion and post-crash behavior seems suspicious, but nothing more. OTOH, he's passed now, and there's no need to dig this up at this time.
 
And hypoxia and CO poisoning would certainly explain the confusion. And people who have CO poisoning will fail a field sobriety test, just like a diabetic in distress will.
 
I'm as straight a guy as they come, but Patric Swayze was one good looking man in the day. Man that guy could dance!

I'm feeling kinda vulnerable here now, be careful! :fingerwag:
 
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