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Former game show host/actor Peter Tomarken and wife Kathleen killed in a plane crash. And from this piece…
The plane was on its way to San Diego to ferry a medical patient to the UCLA Medical Center, said Doug Griffith, a spokesman for Angel Flight West, a nonprofit which provides free air transportation for needy patients.
Griffith said the pilot was a volunteer for the group. According to the FAA, the plane was registered to Tomarken and he was the pilot.
The plane apparently had engine trouble and was headed back to Santa Monica Airport, located about two miles inland, but went down about 9:35 a.m. just off shore, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer.
Peter was best known for hosting the game show Press Your Luck from 1983-86 (reruns aired on USA from 1987-95). I have vague memories of watching PYL when I was little; and, now as a twenty-something, watching it again on GSN brings back some form of nostalgia for me. And given he was one of the first game show hosts I’d ever seen, this news is a bit of a shock.
Rest in peace. :(
There’s something about hearing of the passing of someone you grew up watching passign away. Usually celelbrity deaths just make me say ‘That’s too bad,’ but…
I guess because of all the fond memories I had watching PYL as a kid and how sudden this news was…
I honestly now feel sad. I think part of me wanted to dismiss it as a rumor since the AP wasn’t reporting it was Peter. Just that little blurb from The Insider had said something. But knowing. Damn…he will be missed.
Yeah. :(