CLASSIC GAME SHOW HOST KILLED IN PLANE CRASH.

Peter back in the day...

Oh this story is so sad! Peter Tomarken, the host of the 80's game show "Press Your Luck" (Big Bucks! No Whammies!) and his wife Kathleen were killed Monday when their small plane crashed into the Santa Monica Bay soon after take off. Even more tragic, the couple was on a volunteer flight for Angel Flight West, a non profit group that provides free air transportation to needy medical patients. The couple was flying to San Diego where they were going to pick up someone who needed to be transported to UCLA medical center. Ugh, dying while doing a good dead. That is horrible. It is being reported that Tomarken was piloting the plane when it suddenly experienced engine trouble. He turned the plane around hoping to make it back to Santa Monica Airport, but sadly, there was not enough time. The plane went down in about 19 feet of water.

Source: AP