Plane crash kills 5, including LSU coach's daughter-in-law

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JANELLE COGAN and SUDHIN THANAWALA

ATLANTA (AP) — A small plane en route to a college football playoff game crashed into a post office parking lot in Louisiana shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing five people, including a well-known sports reporter who was the daughter-in-law of one of the team’s coaches.

The two-engine Piper Cheyenne crashed in the city of Lafayette about a mile from the regional airport where the flight began, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Tony Molinaro said. Investigators from the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating, according to Molinaro and an NTSB statement on Twitter.

The plane was an eight-passenger aircraft, said Lafayette Fire Chief Robert Benoit. Six people were on board the plane, five of whom were killed, he said. The sixth, a 37-year-old man, was being treated at an area hospital along with two people who were in the post office.

A person who was either in or near a car on the ground was also “impacted” by the crash and was being treated for injuries, Benoit said. He did not elaborate. A blackened car sat in the post office parking lot, which was carpeted with scattered tree limbs.



This photo provided by AcadianNews shows first responders looking over the site of a plane crash near Feu Follet Road and Verot School Road in Lafayette, La., Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019. Authorities confirmed the accident but details on whether anyone was injured was not immediately known. (AcadianNews via AP)


Read more: https://apnews.com/ff53bf00209a84ae1ed86851c4051008

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Patriarchal headline from AP. She is NOT noted for her accomplishments, but her wedded relationship.

She was "a well-known sports reporter" as stated inside the article, not the headline.

Somehow having made a name of her own as a reporter was less important than that she was somebody's daughter who married some guy who was only noted for being born to a coach.

[CatWoman]

6. have to agree with you

that was my impression as well

[Roy Rolling]

2. Really?

Her relationship with the coach is of gigantic significance to the news story other than her own sports reporting.

She was an up-and-coming reporter, her husband’s father was a coach of a team that was (blamelessly) involved with the plane crash—she was on the way to one of the biggest college football games of the year.

Patriarchal? That’s a stretch, BLP. Save the outrage for true offenses, my friend. There are plenty of them. Just not this one.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Reply to my post, if you want to reply to me rather than the article. Yes, patriarchal.

0) If you don't reply to my post I don't see a notification, which is just fine if you want to hide it from me. Dunno if that was your intention or if it was a mistake.

1) I was not outraged or offended or even miffed.

2) I was pointing out the significance of the choice.

3) The headline could have been "Plane crash kills 5, including well-known sports reporter".

4) I do have outrage for "true offenses". I can generate as much outrage as is needed for events. I don't save it up and I don't need to "save" it.

5) If we don't point out patriarchy it will continue on oblivious to its privilege. The patriarchy depends on continued assumptions implicit in the headline that married women belong to somebody.

6) Why the hell is a football coach of "gigantic significance" and being a reporter is not?

7) The article could have made clear the tenuous familial relationship (one birth step and one marriage step away) in the first sentence, after identifying her for who she is rather than who she married.

8) She died, not the coach.

9) She has a name, but the article doesn't care.

[Bradical79]

7. A reply to point #6

6) Why the hell is a football coach of "gigantic significance" and being a reporter is not?

College football is massive, and this was heading into the national championship semifinals, so the audience is absolutely going to have their attention grabbed more by her relationship to LSU coaching. Anyone who is not a major on air personality would receive the same sort of headlines if their family member is a major part of the most hyped college football playoffs ever.

[Omaha Steve]

4. Under weight of family tragedy, LSU coach crafts big win

By CHARLES ODUM

ATLANTA (AP) — Steve Ensminger wiped tears from his eyes after first walking onto the football field at Mercedes-Benz Stadium for LSU’s pregame warmups.

The Tigers assistant was still fighting his emotions when he quickly left the field after the top-ranked team in the country earned a spot in the national championship game.

It was a flawless performance by LSU for those watching. What fans and the national TV audience didn’t see was how LSU’s offensive coordinator managed to persevere through the unthinkable sorrow of losing his daughter-in-law earlier in the day in a deadly plane crash. Ensminger was able to compose himself and call the game of his life amid the personal tragedy.

LSU passing game coordinator Joe Brady witnessed Ensminger’s struggles firsthand, sitting alongside him in their usual perch above the field in the coaches’ booth during the game.

FULL story: https://apnews.com/22ccdbcb8755ae3f62a3d7b54c59e509



LSU Offensive Coordinator Steve Ensminger watches teams warm up before the first half of the Peach Bowl NCAA semifinal college football playoff game between LSU and Oklahoma, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019, in Atlanta. Ensminger's daughter-in-law, Carley McCord, died in a plane crash Saturday in Louisiana on the way to the game. (AP Photo/John Amis)

[redstatebluegirl]

5. I don't know how it coached last night.

I feel so sorry for his son and the whole family. How terrible.