As his last words to me were Drop by and see me sometime! with a smile on his face, just like the Hooter always had, if your are ever there stop by and pay your respects to a legend. The air loads were so severe, they finally BROKE the slat, and it departed the airplane, ! Jared Rakness officiating. Currently no date has been chosen for any memorial arrangements or services for Hoot. But Hoot has me beat on a number of fronts. You obviously like to hear yourself. He returned immediately to Universal and was able to restart his career, quickly working his way up to co-star status in a series of short westerns, most of which were directed by his now close friend Ford. Anytime they were together you just new something exciting was about to happen, Tragically Dad died in a helicopter accident in the eighties, after that (even before) Hoot was always there keeping all of us kids going down the right path. I encourage all who desire to pay their respects and honor Captain Harvey Glenn Hoot Gibsons memory to attend. Hoot Gibsons mothers name is unknown at this time and his fathers name is under review. It seems to me that anyone on on Flight 741, April 4, 1979, A Miracle!! And that is the reality, that so many people, such as yourself, just BELIEVE, mostly, only what they want to believe, rather than testing reality by seeking and taking note of factual information that, in realty, is what really establishes what the real truth of a matter usually is, unlike what the trained investigators in the NTSB and the FAA did, which was to have investigated and found out about TWAs near crash, that was it was CAUSED by Gibson, and not saved, by his actions. ~ I bet, not so much. If the NTSB and Boeing got it wrong, and the producers rely solely on the NTSB report, then you end up with a documentary that only spreads misinformation. My heart is broken by the loss of this wonderful man I knew for a short 11 1/2 years. RIP Sky Pilot. Like Roger, we remember Gods mercy with gratitude and try not to take for granted the gift of new life. Including me. Gibson died early. Id love to read your analysis of TWA 841. I never knew Hoot outside that bar, but I thought of him often and told his story as I heard it from him to many fellow aviators. Also would welcome any pictures that I could put onto/into something for people to see at the gathering. One of the NTSBs quotes are : After eliminating all individual and combined sources of mechanical failure, the NTSB ruled that the extension of the slats was due to the flight crew manipulating the flap/slat controls in an inappropriate manner. He was pretty well bashed up they originally thought we was dead. Kaskas13@gmail.com, Hey there Kassie. Thank you again, Captain Gibson! Please check back soon for updates. I would like to stay in touch. I wish I had known that years ago. and the lives of the other crew members and passengers. All of us that new Hoot and loved him have always stood behind him. After all, parts dont start falling off during a typical arrival scenario when approach flaps are selected! If you see something that doesnt look right, contact us. Always Kristine, Wow, your words of appreciation for Hoot are indeed touching my soul. thanks for the wonderful memories. That man did more with the time given him on this earth than a dozen or so folks just going through the motions. Hello John. Certainly the Flight Engineer WOULD have reset the slat breaker, which HE DID, when he saw it popped because HE WOULD IMMEDIATELY HAVE THOUGHT IT POPPED ON ITS OWN BECAUSE OF AN ELECTRICAL OVERLOAD, AND WOULD (and DID) RESET IT TO SEE IF IT WOULD POP AGAIN ! In 1907 he signed a four-year contract with the Dick Stanley-Bud Atkinson Wild West Show, which toured throughout the US and (later) Australia.By 1910 Hoot had found an "in" to the movie business as one of the industry's first stuntmen (for which he was paid $2.50 for performing stunts or training horses). Hoot still continued to forge a name for himself on the rodeo circuit with his pal Acord. I dont think anybody here knows your background, but I would challenge you to convince me you are not part of the machine that tried to stain an aviation heros reputation in a successful bid to avoid the lawsuits that would flood the courts if it turned out there was a design flaw in the rudder system on both the 737 and 727. Glenn "Hoot" Gibson Jr, 88, died on May 1, 2018 at the Sioux Falls VA Medical Center in Sioux Falls, SD. Everybody knew Hoot Gibson. The boxes of papers you have may contain some with my name. He hee. I also am wondering if.and IFthis comes to fruitionmay I quote some of the stories that fellow friends of Hoot have posed. What are the odds?? basketball . And he sure loved Lois, his Guardian Angel. Id like to know the basis of Mr. Youngs comment. I did not know Hoot had passed until now. We sat there for some time talking about the inherent problem that was being covered up by the manufacturer, and he predicted that there would be more failures in the future, even mentioning the 737. Hi TAS has no bearing on structural limitations. . John D. "Hoot" Gibson <p>The family of John D. "Hoot" Gibson will host a gathering of family and friends from 1:00 PM until 1:45 PM on Monday, February 20, 2023, at Lake Ridge Chapel and Memorial Designers. No matter what you and a number of others on this blog write, so foolishly, about what you think, rather than about what is KNOWN, not guessed at about, Gibsons deliberately setting his flaps to 2 degrees in high altitude cruise flight, along with reaching around to the flight engineers panel, while the FE was out of the cockpit, also illegal, and pulling the spoiler CB (circuit breaker) because Gibson knew that the spoilers deployment at speed would be catastrophic, was egregiously ILLEGAL and reckless, again, no matter what you think about it. Flaps and slats were intended to only be deployed at low speeds during take-off or landing.[1]. Its been over a week now since Hoot passed over into eternity and only now have I began to get emotional and teary eyed over this loss. While working on the Miller 101 Ranch at Fort Bliss, Oklahoma, as a horse wrangler, Hoot developed a strong, active interest in the rodeo scene--in particular, bronco busting. Born Edmund Richard Gibson in Tekamah, Nebraska, he learned to ride a horse while still a very young boy. of course, I have wasted both of our times by writing you these things because you are not interested in them and are not interested in learning anything, in order to learn the truth about this incident and Captain Gibsons criminally negligent and illegal behavior. His vehicles were non-violent for the most part, and he rarely was spotted carrying a gun while riding his palomino horse Goldie. Never a boring experience! God Bless your Heart. Marge Hey.you!out there!! Whos the richest Movie Actor in the world? Like most TWA pilots, they were the most skilled in the industry. This party would also require people to pay to attend.I am not rich, nor do I have the means or time to raise funds right nowbut I know that there are so many people here in Chicago that would be so happy to attend to honor and celebrate your dad. not having known hoot personally but having heard stories and reading about him, i bet he came up with some one liners when he woke up and found out he had a womans heart beating in his chest, such as; ill be right with you as soon as i get my lipstick on! We ALL felt privileged to be the crew to accompany him home. He did a favor for old friend John Ford by appearing in a cameo role in the director's 1959 film The Horse Soldiers (1959). Im glad you got the opportunity to connect with him, when he was ready for adulting. Hoot never skied but he always brought humor and irreverence to our group. God bless you, brother Hootso glad we were able to exchange a final email communication with each other just last year (thanks to Emilios website). When is Hoot Gibsons birthday? Thank you Roger. Hoot Gibson was a Leo and was born in the G.I. Another retired pilot visited him Friday night(? The strengths of this sign are being creative, passionate, generous, warm-hearted, cheerful, humorous, while weaknesses can be arrogant, stubborn, self-centered, lazy and inflexible. Would like to have met you. I am grateful he knew that his story would be told. Airplanes in particular became a large, expensive passion of his. I am another TWA pilot who knew Hoot as the great person he was. Harvey 'Hoot' Gibson regained control by extending the landing gear just 4,800 feet from the ground. Mr. E.M. "Hoot" Gipson, age 89, of Meridian passed away Wednesday, December 22, 2021, at Bedford Care Center of Marion surrounded by his loving family. California Death Index, and the death certificate provide more on Hoot Gibson: 1890 census is unavailable - it was lost in a 1921 fire (and water damage) at the Commerce Building in Washington, D.C. I remember dad talking about your father quite fondly many times. John van den Bosch, my Dutch brother-in-law who lives with his family in Schiedam, Holland, met Hoot years ago down here in Costa Rica. Gibson was not fired by TWA, as I wrote, and someone else commented on, as well. Besides being a TWA Captain and owning his own airplane, he would spend is days off doing, what else, flying the classic Ford Tri-Motor for Scenic. cause of death. He was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. Our skepticism persists even though the CVR would not have contained any contemporaneous information about the events that immediately preceded the loss of control because we believe it probable that the 25 minutes or more of recording which preceded the landing at Detroit could have provided clues about causal factors and might have served to refresh the flight crews memories about the whole matter. I will never forget you!! Contents 1 Background 2 Filmography 3 Notes 4 References Background [ edit] In 1912, at age 20, he won the title "All-Around Champion Cowboy" at the famed annual Pendleton (Oregon) Round-Up. Hoots being there for us was no coincidence but preordained for the Lords purposes. To end his career in Chicago was his wish. The nonlinear instability phenomenon is demonstrated in the following video. Here is all you want to know, and more! I think you have his date of birth off by quite a few years. But, in my opinion, he did lose his credibility, and any claim of any sort of heroism, and damaged the legacy of his career, by the terrible lack of judgement he exhibited on Flight 841, your opinion of him, not withstanding, But, your opinion is your own, and you have the absolute right to write, retain, and keep it. I wrote an entire book that puts the mystery of what happened to rest. you were one of a kind . Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, the dominating St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won a record seven consecutive World Series starts and set a modern standard for excellence when . I have to add here while waiting I was honored to meet Kristine, it was her mothers heart that had allowed Hoot to have so many wonderful years of life. I must have inherited that as I have been through many scrapes as well and should not be here to tell it. His nickname was Ed Hoot Gibson, Ed Hall, Edward Gibson, Gibson Edmund Richard, Hall Gibson. No. human. In 1933 he crashed his biplane during a National Air Race in Los Angeles, which had pitted him against another cowboy star, Ken Maynard. I am grateful you were all able to maintain contact with him after being separated. You never mentioned if you are coming to the celebration. I was a young pilot flying Grand Canyon tours for Scenic Airlines, and Hoot was already a local legend in the aviation fraternity. Hey Marge. [1]:2[7] Investigators believed that 727 pilots ( in general, and on this flight, specifically, ) were setting the trailing edge flaps to two degrees during high altitude cruise, while at the same time pulling the circuit breaker for the slats so that they would not activate. As Hoot sees me the tears started flowing, he then tells me what everyone was laughing about. Its called, by the FAA, one of the known Dirty Dozen attitudes of pilots, among others, that cause fatal crashes : complacency, leading to pilot errors, usually basic student pilot flying errors that senior captains should never make. Bill, The initials "G.I." Our flying started when I was a teenager working on my license in a J-3 cub. My wife, having seen me deal with the deaths of many friends and relatives over the last two decades, asked me why it was so different, so much more difficult this time. Even if there was a slat deployment at altitude, nothing is going to fail. And that, seemingly, miraculous event was what allowed the two pilots to be able to level their airplane from its upside down spiraling motion, and, then, allowed them to be able to pull out of the dive they were in, just barely in time, to save the airplane from crashing. FACT! He wanted nothing more to clear his name! I always said if a box had wings Hoot could fly it. He died Aug. 23, 1962 of cancer. The entire circuit breaker story came about because a passenger misidentified a male steward as the flight engineer. When it suddenly became darker, he and the others realized I had disappeared back at the last turn. I wanted to share a few short stories for you and the others. At the time of his death he survived by his large extended friends and family. Gibson regained control by extending the landing gear just 4,800 feet from the ground the Lords purposes Angel... Wanted to share a few years of his few hoot gibson cause of death stories for and. 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