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NBC Exec Survives Plane Crash; Son Killed
The holiday weekend took a tragic turn for one of the fathers of Saturday Night Live, hurt in a private plane crash Sunday that injured one son and killed another.
NBC executive Dick Ebersol, 57, was one of three survivors of the fiery twin-engine wreck Sunday morning in Montrose, Colorado, near the celebrity-friendly ski-resort town of Telluride. Charles Ebersol, 21, Ebersol's eldest son with actress/wife Susan Saint James, also made it out of the accident scene alive, as did an unidentified copilot.
The plane's 50-year-old pilot and 36-year-old flight attendant were killed in the crash. Edward "Teddy" Ebersol, Ebersol and Saint James' 14-year-old son, initially was missing, and presumed dead. His body was recovered from the plane Monday.
Dick and Charles Ebersol were in stable condition at a hospital, NBC Universal said late Monday. Both are expected to "make a full recovery," the network said. The copilot was said to be in critical condition at a Denver hospital.
Saint James, who was not on the doomed charter flight, was at the hospital with her husband and eldest son. An NBC spokesman told Denver's Rocky Mountain News that the longtime prime-time staple (Kate & Allie, McMillan and Wife) was requesting privacy and had "no comment at this time."
Per the National Transportation Safety Board, the twin-engine Canadair Challenger, with three crew members and the three Ebersols aboard, crashed during takeoff at 9:55 a.m. Sunday at Montrose Regional Airport. The plane ran off the runway and smashed through a fence before becoming engulfed in flames.
Charles Ebersol was credited with pulling his father from the wreckage--and with trying to find help for his missing brother.
"I remember the kid [Charles] was still yelling," tow-truck driver Doug Percival, an eyewitness to the crash, told the Montrose Daily Press. "He came and grabbed me from the side and said, 'Please, my brother is still in the plane. He was in the fourth row.' "
Charles Ebersol told Percival that he and his father had been seated in the back row.
The flight was bound for South Bend, Indiana, where Charles Ebersol attends Notre Dame University. The undergrad and his family had been in Los Angeles on Saturday night for the Notre Dame-University of Southern California football game, reports said. (According to the Associated Press, a third Ebersol--Saint James' son, Willie, 18, is a student at USC.)
The Los Angeles Times reported that four members of the Ebersol clan--Dick Ebersol, Saint James and sons Charles and Teddy--flew Sunday into Telluride, where Saint James deplaned. The elder Ebersol and his two children were to continue on to South Bend.
Dick Ebersol is currently president of NBC Sports. Since assuming the title in 1989, he has masterminded the network's coverage of the past four Summer Olympics and the 2002 Winter Games.
In 1975, Ebersol was the whiz kid NBC exec in charge of late-night weekend programming who, with Lorne Michaels, helped develop Saturday Night Live.
Following Michaels' departure from SNL in 1980, and one disastrous season under the watch of future Woody Allen producer Jean Doumanian, Ebersol took over the show as executive producer in 1981. His four-year run helped steady the franchise and made stars of Eddie Murphy and, for a time, Joe Piscopo. He turned SNL back over to Michaels in 1985.
Ebersol and Saint James, 58, met on the set of SNL, which she hosted twice during his tenure. The two wed in 1981.
(Originally published Nov. 29 at 2:45 p.m. PT.)
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