Tue, Jun 13, 2006
Missing Writer Found Dead After Auto Accident
It's sad news when the
aviation world loses one of its own... even sadder to us here at
ANN when it's one of our colleagues.
Michael Dornheim was an award-winning journalist at Aviation
Week for the past quarter-century. A general aviation pilot
himself... the 51-year old Dornheim was well-known in the small
community of aviation reporters.
In 1994, he won the Aviation/Space Writers Association Award of
Excellence for stories on the space shuttle. He was also a
three-time winner of the Royal Aeronautical Society's Aerospace
Journalist of the Year Award.
"Mike had a unique combination of engineering education and
experience, aerospace industry knowledge, inquisitiveness and
dogged perseverance," said Jim Asker, Aviation Week magazine's
managing editor. "On top of that, he could communicate clearly in
words and pictures."
On the night of June 3, Mike was on his way home after dinner
with some friends at a restaurant in the Santa Monica Mountains
near Calabasas, CA. He had told them he was heading home "the
back way."
Sadly, Mike wasn't seen again... until Monday, when a Los
Angeles County law enforcement helicopter flying in the area
spotted Mike's car upside down off Piuma Road. The car had run off
the road and plunged into a 350-foot deep canyon.
Mike lost his life in that accident. And we lost a colleague
who, by all accounts... was a competent and well-liked reporter. We
have no word at this point on plans for a memorial.
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