S. African Pilot Collected Crash Stamps
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —
The veteran pilot of a South African Airways jumbo jet carrying 160 people that plunged into the Indian Ocean had a hobby: collecting stamps and letters recovered from aircraft that crashed.
In an ironic twist to Saturday’s crash, friends said Sunday that Capt. D. J. Uys, 49, had been planning to publish a book on his collection of such letters and stamps, known as “crash mail.”
Five bodies were recovered at the crash scene on Sunday.
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