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[John Cadd]

A strange coincidence came about yesterday .I wanted to hear Joseph Hassid`s recording of Meditation to compare with so many bad versions all over the net .In the photo of the record cover was a picture of Ginette Niveu who`s recording were also on the disc.
During the Ukraine war I had discovered the islands of the Azores and had been looking at homes for sale as a kind of antidote to the Putin invasion .Islands half way across the ocean looked fairly safe .
I knew Ginette Niveu had died in a plane crash and looked up the details .She was just 30 years old .It was a shock to learn that the plane had crashed into a mountain in the Azores . The pilots approaching the landing strip should have been at 3000 feet before descending .But they were in clouds and flew at 2000 feet . Almost everything that could go wrong inside the plane happened . Bad communications and lack of professional flying standards mainly . A very tragic end for 48 passengers and crew . So Niveu and Hassid , both brilliant musicians died far too early in their tragic ends .