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Fortunate but Fated
Memoir of a Life and Death Concealed Revealed
Early Flying Experience
Never before had he flown, but when about thirteen, up he went at an airshow to stunt in a two-winged plane for two, the pilot in one cockpit, he in the other. When he came down, he said, "I want to fly again."
Career Aspirations and Family Background
A few years later, in England where we grew up, Adolf decided he wanted to be a surgeon. But my father, a businessman, wanted him to go into the family tradition of business.
Return to Medellín and Career Shift
Upon returning to our hometown of Medellín, Colombia at the age of twenty-two, Adolf was accepted into a life of social privilege but found no interest in business—much to my father's great displeasure. Bored by his lack of prospects, Adolf jumped at the opportunity, provided by the U.S. Government in wartime 1942, to learn in the U.S. how to fly commercial airliners so as to replace U.S. commercial pilots in Colombia needed for the U.S. Air Force.
Tragic End
After flight school he became a copilot in the Colombian airline. Some five months into Adolf's new career, my separated parents and I, living in the U.S., were stunned to learn by cable that he had died from excessive doses of Atabrine, a common medicine for malaria that had mentally disturbed him nearly to the point of him killing himself. This story is about the true cause of his death and the intrigue surrounding its cover-up.
