Depositions from the aftermath of Thurman Munsons‘s plane crash are recounted in the New York Times:
Hall was in the plane when it slammed into the ground. In the deposition, he describes how in the immediate aftermath of the crash, Munson lay motionless, his head turned sideways and pressed against the instrument panel.
Munson’s neck, it turned out, had been broken by the impact of the crash. His body was paralyzed. Still, Hall testified, Munson managed to ask him and Jerry Anderson, the other passenger in the plane, if they were O.K.
And then, Hall testified, flames began to lick at the fuselage of the Cessna Citation turbojet, and Munson gasped, “Fire extinguisher.” What followed, Hall said, were the final words uttered by Munson, the hard-nosed All-Star and team captain.
“Help me, Dave,” he said.
There were also a number of depositions from Yankees at the time that give insights into what Munson’s life was like with the Yankees. Well worth the read.
from baseballmusings.com https://ift.tt/2OCFzaP
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