Russian Newspaper mistakenly says Sam Perkins was on crashed flight

I don't see Big Smooth on any international flight, unless it's going to Amsterdam.

 

I looked up the details of the crash victims put up by the BBC, and I didn't notice any americans. The only "westerners" were two canadians.

Will try to find the source.

 

Wow. Wtf is going on with all these plane crashes this week?!!!

 

The rapture is upon us.

 

say it aint so not i loved sam perkins as a player.

 

and in the meantime hundreds of people have died in car related crashes within the week all around the world, unfortunately that isn't sensational journalism.

 

An erroneous report by a Russian newspaper placed UNC basketball great Sam Perkins aboard the plane that crashed in Kyrgyzstan and killed 68 people Sunday. Perkins and Stanford's Rebecca Bonner were in the country, which borders China, as part of of the International Sports Initiative sponsored by the U.S. State Department.

A Reuters report said the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan denied Perkins and Bonner were on the ill-fated flight. They said the two flew home from Kazakhstan, which neighbors Kyrgyzstan to the west.