From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: High Flight . . . - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1472 Posted: Tue Feb 15 16:14:12 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 07:55:03 1983 #R:nmtvax:-14300:uicsl:7500012:000:226 uicsl!wombat Feb 15 14:41:00 1983 I was once told that Magee died in a plane crash very shortly after writing "High Flight." Any substantiation? It was just about the only poetry we had in the house when I was small. My dad had a framed copy on his dresser.