Epilogue: Beginnings
May 6, 2000
BUFFALO, NY – A small, twin-engine private aircraft crashed yesterday in Lake Ontario claiming the lives of three people including an infant. The pilot of the plane managed to escape before the wreckage sunk in 500-foot water 60 miles northeast of Buffalo. The FAA has not identified any of the accident victims yet pending the notification of families.
FAA spokesperson Jeff Wisener said that the aircraft, a 1964 Beechcraft Baron, was traveling from Washington Executive Airport in Clinton, Maryland to City Centre Airport in Toronto, Ontario. The aircraft was operating under visual flight rules, according to Wisener, and was not required to be in contact with air traffic control.
Wisener stated that a distress call was received by FAA personnel in Buffalo, and that a Coast Guard helicopter was dispatched to the position given where the pilot was found clinging to debris from the sunken plane. In a statement to rescuers, the pilot indicated that the passengers had been rendered unconscious by the impact of the crash and that the plane had slipped below the water before he could provide any assistance.
Officials of the National Transportation Safety Board declined to speculate on the cause of the accident, citing the ongoing investigation. However several aviation company officials operating aircraft in the area indicated that weather was unlikely to be determined as a factor.
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June 29, 2000
SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – Algoma University today announced the appointment of Dr. Michael Hayle to the Alphonse Dexter Professorship of Clinical Psychology at the School of Medicine, effective immediately.
Dr. Hayle received a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Clinical Psychology from Balliol College at Oxford University, and has been serving as an associate professor of psychology at Trinity College for the previous six years.
His wife, Dr. Sandy Hayle, is a doctor of pediatrics and intends to join the staff of Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital within the next several weeks. She and their 8-month-old son Will join Dr. Hale in their new home in the Soo.
Finis
Post-story notes: For those who may think that newborn William looking just like Mulder is a work of fiction you haven't seen my children and their father. When my oldest was born and I first saw her I said the exact line that Scully says to Mulder, though it didn't mean the same thing to us as it does to them! To this day (my daughter is 29) the older two still look just like him, though the third favors me a bit. Also, I had my first one in exactly four hours so Scully's fast labor is not pure fiction, either. I just wish my husband had been as calm as Mulder; he was the classic pass-out-on-the-floor father and never made it into the delivery room with me although we had planned to have him there.
And just FYI, legend passed down in my father's family has it that my great-great-grandparents helped found Beckley, WV which I couldn't resist using in this story although I have, unfortunately, never been there. Gingham is a figment of my imagination although based on Sherrard which is just outside Wheeling, where I have been.
One final note: Alma was my maternal grandmother's name and Jackson is my maiden name although the character is a figment of my imagination.