Paul

Just to let the group know that David Garber was killed this last week in a crash in Georgia.
Here is a story from the Orlando Sentinal newspaper and a link to his rotary powered aircraft that
you brought to sun-n-fun a few years ago.

Mike Perry
N981MP
Long Ez, 13B

I am very sorry to hear that.

Paul Lamar

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LEESBURG - The flight that ended in the death of former Lake County School Board member
Scott Strong began as a favor for an aviation buddy.

Strong, 47, flew his Lady Lake neighbor, David Stuart Garber, 80, to north Georgia so that they
could bring the older man's vintage plane back to Leesburg, friends said Friday.

But on the way back Thursday morning, both men were killed when the 1957 Fuji LM-1 they
had picked up crashed just after taking off from Athens Ben Epps Airport.

"Scott went up there as a favor, to help him [Garber] out," said Janice Kemp, vice president
of Electric Services Inc., where Strong was chief executive officer. Strong and Garber had homes
on the west side of Lake Griffin and frequently talked about aviation, friends said.

Garber, a highly credentialed pilot and retired jumbo-jet captain, also had a home in Athens. He
had recently suffered a stroke and was no longer able to fly, said his wife, Sandra Garber, in
Athens.

"He was a very, very good pilot, very experienced."

Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration could not say Friday whether Garber or
Strong was piloting the two-seater Fuji. The plane had two sets of controls.

A fighter pilot during the Korean War, Garber was certified to fly commercial airplanes.
However, FAA officials in Oklahoma could not say late Friday whether he still had a valid license.

Kathleen Bergen, an FAA spokeswoman, said the investigation has been turned over to the
National Transportation Safety Board and that it take a year to determine the cause.

Strong, along with his brother, Steve Strong, and Garber flew out of Leesburg aboard a Cessna
to retrieve the Fuji. Sandra Garber said her husband was planning on "eventually selling it" from
Leesburg.

After arriving at the Athens airport, Scott Strong climbed aboard the Fuji with Garber. Steve
Strong, piloting the Cessna, took off, and Garber's Fuji followed close behind. Moments later,
the Fuji crashed into a wooded area near the home of Michelle Thomas.

"It seems as if he purposely avoided homes and landed in a clearing," Thomas told WSBTV.com.
"It was very scary. I was in tears."

Friends on Friday remembered Strong as a sharp leader and a devoted family man.

"He was one of my best friends," Dean Simmons said. "He was a great friend. He was a great
dad. He was a great husband."

Strong served on the School Board from 2000 to 2008, before deciding not to seek re-election
last fall. He is survived by his wife, Lori, and four children.


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