Plane crashes on street in Fayetteville, former Walmart exec Bill Simon the pilot

[LiberalArkie]

KFSM reports that a private plane made a crash landing on M.L. King Boulevard in Fayetteville today near Fayetteville High School. Three people on board were injured, but none seriously, the station said.

The station reportsthat the pilot was former Walmart CEO Bill Simon and the plane was en route from Bentonville to Waco when it developed problems.

A pickup reportedly hit the plane after it crashed.

Below is video captured by Kelly King of video as the parachute and plane came down. We are running it with his permission.

http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/11/03/plane-crashes-on-street-in-fayetteville-former-walmart-exec-said-to-be-pilot

[Art_from_Ark]

1. OMG

I used to know that area very well.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Probably would have been ok the truck had not hit it.

I remember way back when Win Rockefeller landed his Falcon jet oh a highway once. The drivers were not amused at all

[Art_from_Ark]

3. I don't remember that

When was that? When WinRock was governor?

[LiberalArkie]

4. I think when he was running for his second term. I was a little kid and my dad was

campaigning for him and told me about it.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. OK, that was around 1968

I was a little kid, then, too, and everyone in my family who could vote was for WinRock. I had WR66 and WR68 pins, and maybe they're still at my mother's house. Anyway, that was quite a year-- Arkansas voted for a progressive Republican governor (the last time there was a progressive Republican governor in Arkansas), a liberal US Senator, and a racist presidential candidate.

[LiberalArkie]

6. I like this from a Win Rockefeller page. Never underestimate Arkansas politics or someone who

who learned from it. Justice Jim Johnson was a cousin of mine on my dads side of the family. I go from a socialist grandfather who was in the bonus army thing in Washington all the way to Justice Jim.

On April 7, 1968, Rockefeller held a public ceremony of mourning for the death of Martin Luther King Jr. He was the only Southern governor to do so, which likely helped Little Rock escape some of the rioting that broke out elsewhere after King’s assassination.

Rockefeller went into the 1968 gubernatorial campaign with a strong organization and a solid list of accomplishments. Nevertheless, there was no guarantee he would triumph. Arkansas Democrats were presented with an unusual array of characters, with Justice Jim Johnson taking on U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, while his wife, Virginia Johnson, ran for governor. Ultimately, state representative Marion Crank received the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, though Crank was badly tainted by his long association with Governor Faubus.

In November 1968, Arkansas voters cast votes in ways that defy easy explanation. Rockefeller, a Republican, was reelected as governor—again with a huge black majority compensating for a lukewarm reception among white voters. A Democrat retained the U.S. Senate seat, with Fulbright leading the ticket in Arkansas. George Wallace, an Independent, won the presidential vote in Arkansas. No political party, it seemed, could take Arkansas for granted. Also in 1968, Rockefeller garnered eighteen votes at the Republican National Convention, but the Republican presidential nomination went to Richard Nixon. Rockefeller's brother Nelson had made a more serious presidential run but was also unsuccessful.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Another bit of trivia about WinRock

He appeared on an episode of "The Governor and JJ", presenting the "governor" with a razorback hog.