Talk:William Penn Patrick

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...sourced to citations from (22) reputable referenced sources. Smee 07:24, 25 May 2007 (UTC).
 * To other editors: 30 May 2007, state of the article when it appeared on the Main Page, sourced to (22) reputable referenced sources.  Smee 21:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC).

William Penn Patrick's death
It's not accurate to state that WPP died in the crash of his plane in Lakeport, California. Lakeport is on the southwestern edge of Clearlake, the biggest fresh water lake in California. WPP owned a ranch of over 100 acres in the high valley on the eastern side of Clearlake - hence the name of the ranch, High Valley Ranch. WPP flew his twin engine plane into the side of a valley on the northern edge of the ranch. The crash site is still visible today. It's a difficult steep hike down into the valley. Plane parts can be seen scattered along the hike down to the crash site. It's interesting to note that the crash occurred in early June 1973 just after the federal government's SEC issued a scathing report about fraud in the operation of WPP's multilevel marketing business, Holiday Magic. Several high level officers of Holiday Magic were eventually indicted and convicted of fraud. Samkinghawaii (talk) 23:45, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Correction: the P-51 is a single-engine aircraft (and, being a World War II fighter, a very high-performance one which is unforgiving of mishandling). --Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 20:38, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay, which one of our famous fraudster conmen had the F-86 that crashed into the ice cream parlor in Petaluma ? I had remembered that as Penn Patrick but probably was wrong :( 116.231.75.71 (talk) 08:09, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

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