Friday 6 September 2019

1106) Randall E. McNally

Randall Edward McNally (1961 - 1994). American Navy Reserve pilot, Persian Gulf veteran and full-time Delta Air Lines pilot. He was the sixth of 10 children of Margaret and Dr. Randall McNally, a prominent plastic surgeon of Irish origins.
He died in a plane crash in the San Francisco Bay while trying to complete a turn before landing.

- "Family members recalled that McNally's love and talent for flying was fated from the day the blue-eyed, red-haired boy was born..."  https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search…

- "The son of a prominent Chicago plastic surgeon, the red-haired McNally was an extraordinary man from an extraordinary Irish-Catholic family of 10 children."  https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search…

- "And proudly wearing his mother's red hair and his father's esteemed name, Randall Edward McNally II charged through life with all the energy and enthusiasm of America itself."   http://michaeljesse.net/…/Falling_from_the_S…/1026side2.html


McNally and his brother Edward McNally with Texas Gov. George W. Bush in 1980. Edward was a speech writer for President George Bush.

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