Remembering Diane

AMOS BLUM - MEMPHIS TN / FLORIDA
How sad to loose Diane. She was a good friend.
Rest In Peace

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ONA flight attendant
Diane Petelenz Green
Loved - Missed
On October 3, 2007, Diane Green
(Petelenz) lost her battle with cancer.

ONA Crew extend deepest felt condolences
for Dianeīs family.

Diane Petelenz was hired with ONA
as a flight attendant on March 2,
1969, with seniority # 97 To the sweet
memory of Diane

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Heartfelt condolences extended to Peter Greenīs family from the ONA crew

I flew with both Diane and Pete on several occasions, 
they were both a pleasure to know and to have as 
crewmembers. The cockpit is such a close physical 
environment that one has favorite individuals that they 
enjoy beyond the expected professional performance. 

Pete was one of those for me. He had a fine sense of 
humor that kept me alert, once when the F/A's served 
us a snack that included Camembert cheese 
I asked him if people ate the moldy looking gray that 
covered it. He assured me that they do. Later after 
having eaten I observed him carefully manicuring his 
cheese and questioned him. He said, "People eat it but… 
I do not". To this day I think of Pete when eating 
Camembert. Once when in Germany while
checking out of the Hotel he proudly flexed his Gold 
American Express Card as I was checking out with my 
green version. His card broke in half and I had to 
use mine for his temporary benefit … it was worth it.



Pete volunteered his time off to fly the Honduras 
rescue mission that ONA sponsored and he was with 
me in Malaga, Spainwhen on take-off we lost 
all hydraulic fluid in just a few seconds. Very 
close to decision speed I elected to reject the 
take-off which we did as a team and in the end used 
air brakes (DC-8) to finally stop. Pete later told 
me that he would have continued the take-off, and 
there is a good argument for that too. I told him 
that I was successful and that it was hard to 
argue the point … he nodded and agreed. I never did 
tell him had he been flying that leg I would have 
had the greatest confidence in whatever he 
wanted to do, after all there is that cheese thing. 
I will settle that when we both are WEST. 

Climbing Mount Fuji

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Captain Peter Green passed from kidney cancer on 11/14/96, 
leaving his wife, ONA flight attendant Diane (Petelenz) 
Green and their sons Greg and Todd, family, many friends 
and colleagues.

Peter enjoyed a long and successful career as a pilot. 
He joined ONA in September of 1969. 

Other ONA pilots of this era, to name a few, were Ras Nielsen, 
George Flavell, Ed Veronelli, Dennis OīConnor and 
Paul Witting. 

Peter was thereafter flying for United as a Senior Captain 
on DC-8s and held an Airbus 300 type rating.
  
He was also flying FO on the 747-400, doing a weekly 
Tokyo run. 

Peterīs oldest son Greg moved to Los Angeles after high 
school, where Greg got interested in flying and Greg feels 
its ironic that his dad was gone a few years before he became 
interested.  Greg completed private pilotsī license on 6/9/99 
in a C-172 in just 54 hours, the national average is around 
75 hours.  Greg dabbled in light helis, but found it too 
expensive.  He then got a job at Oxford airport in CT 
as a lineman, and noticed that there was a flight school 
in the building.  

He got to talking with the owner, it turned out to be 
Milt Marshall!   Greg even got to fly a few 
hours with Milt to get checked out in his planes,
Greg recalls.

- Boy, was he a pilot.  It was a blustery winter day that 
had me white knuckling, and he was calm as could be.  He 
knew I wanted to eventually fly the "big iron" so he had 
me coming over the fence in a C-152 at 75 knots! 

Normal would be around 50. I was so sad when I found out 
about his crash but if there was any way he could go that 
would be it, I suppose.  

Younger brother Todd hasn't caught the aviation bug, but 
is a whiz at video games.  

HONDURAS MALAGA CATHEDRAL

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