Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Frank E. Petersen Jr. (USMC) (born March 2, 1932 in Topeka, Kansas) is a retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General. He was the first African-American Marine Corps aviator and the first African-American Marine Corps general.Petersen retired from the Marine Corps in 1988 after 38 years of service. "At the time of his retirement he was by date of aviator designation the senior ranking aviator in the U.S. Marine Corps and the United States Navy with respective titles of "Silver Hawk" and "Gray Eagle". His date of designation as an aviator also precedes all other aviators in the U.S. Air Force and Army."Upon his retirement he was hired for the newly-created position of "DuPont Aviation Director", and was subsequently caught up in the conspiracy and scandal surrounding the 1991 crash of a Conoco Gulfstream in Malaysia which killed a dozen executives and air crew. Petersen had gone on record as stating that a warning from other pilots months before the incident that the company's governance was dangerously slack by referring to the pilot who reported this as "...an absolute fucking kook..." There was a coverup and conspiracy after the crash to obscure the fact that a gross pilot error was committed by a sick, alcoholic pilot whom senior executives continued to tolerate. Along with other Conoco executives, Petersen was accused of taking part in a conspiracy to destroy evidence, during a company investigation at the crash site in Malaysia and afterwards. Legal proceedings against the company went on for years.. }
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- Frank_E._Petersen abstract "Frank E. Petersen Jr. (USMC) (born March 2, 1932 in Topeka, Kansas) is a retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General. He was the first African-American Marine Corps aviator and the first African-American Marine Corps general.Petersen retired from the Marine Corps in 1988 after 38 years of service. "At the time of his retirement he was by date of aviator designation the senior ranking aviator in the U.S. Marine Corps and the United States Navy with respective titles of "Silver Hawk" and "Gray Eagle". His date of designation as an aviator also precedes all other aviators in the U.S. Air Force and Army."Upon his retirement he was hired for the newly-created position of "DuPont Aviation Director", and was subsequently caught up in the conspiracy and scandal surrounding the 1991 crash of a Conoco Gulfstream in Malaysia which killed a dozen executives and air crew. Petersen had gone on record as stating that a warning from other pilots months before the incident that the company's governance was dangerously slack by referring to the pilot who reported this as "...an absolute fucking kook..." There was a coverup and conspiracy after the crash to obscure the fact that a gross pilot error was committed by a sick, alcoholic pilot whom senior executives continued to tolerate. Along with other Conoco executives, Petersen was accused of taking part in a conspiracy to destroy evidence, during a company investigation at the crash site in Malaysia and afterwards. Legal proceedings against the company went on for years.".