TOM BOREN 1962 - 1986 PILOT MKC AMA GSW DAL DFW DEN Another Flown West: It is with Deep Regret, to inform you that Capt. Tom Boren has flown west. Tom Died Saturday Oct. 21, 2000 in Carthage, Tx. Graveside Service: 2 P.M. Tuesday in Oddfellows Cemetery. Another Autum Leaf has fallen. He will be remembered forever, and God Bless. Details are attached. -Bill Blackmon (10/24/00) Sorry, no photo. Tom had moved over near the TX / La. border, to be near his origins several yrs. ago, and was unable to stay in contact the last couple years during a terminal cancer and heart challenge. A very long fight. Thanks again for your efforts, and a Job Well Done. -Bill Blackmon (10/26/00) Did you get the message okay on the Gone West of Capt. Tom Boren? Went west Sat. October 21, 2000. He was ALPA#224741 and retired medically from Frontier 8-9-85. I have no other info re reason for death, etc. -Ace Avakian (10/28/00) Jimmy Bennett was a prince of a guy, a pilot's pilot, and a great teacher. He already seemed like the quintessential "old head" back when I flew as his Frontier first officer in the mid-Eighties - but in retrospect he would have been only around the ripe old age of 45 at that time. Jimmy and fellow Texas crop duster Tom Boren were birds of a feather, and I will always miss them both. -Mark Ingram (1/2/10) T M BOREN JR Pilot seniority date of 7/11/62 on the 9/1/85 FL/ALPA seniority list. He's not on the 9/1/86 list. -Jake Lamkins (1/2/10) Posted at the FL Club: Updated memorial webpage TOM BOREN 1962 - 1985 PILOT GSW DAL DFW DEN http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Tom_Boren.html Post your remembrances of Tom. Does anyone have a photo? -Jake Lamkins (1/10/10) I started pilot class with Frontier in April of 1984, and immediately upon completion of training and 25 hours of Initial Operating Experience (IOE) on the line, I went to Denver after a couple of days off to start a block of Reserve availability, beginning the following day. I called Crew Scheduling upon arrival, and Ellie said that I had already been assigned to a trip departing the next day, staying the first night in Seattle, and the second in Joplin, MO - the latter the very "home" airport I had just left earlier that same day. Ellie said the captain on the trip would be Tom Boren. I was in the pilot crew room at the time, and asked a pilot acquaintance if he had ever flown with Tom, and if so, could he offer any advice. He said that Tom hardly spoke, to the point that one could interpret that as his being angry or dissatisfied with his first officer, but that I should not take that personally and just fly the trip by the book. True to that guy's advice, Tom hardly spoke a word to me or the air traffic controller jumpseater on the DEN-SEA leg of the flight. However, when later I went down to the hotel restaurant for "debrief," Tom was already there and we had a nice visit - at least by the lights of Tom's Buddha-like stoicism and silence. Like my own father and Jimmy Bennett, Tom was a pilot's pilot, masterful, smooth and subtle with an airplane. He made it all look so easy. I will always be grateful for his - and Jimmy's - patient tutelage. -Mark Ingram (1/10/10) THOMAS M BOREN JR MKC domicile Pilot seniority date and DOH of 7/11/62 Per the Jul 1963 Cental pilot seniority list. T M BOREN JR Pilot seniority date of 7/11/62 DOB 7/11/62 (ERROR) Per the Sep 1970 pilot seniority list. He retired 1/10/86 per the FL/ALPA Roster. -Jake Lamkins (10/14/20) T M BOREN JR Emp# 01049 DAL first officer DOB 3/16/39 DOH 7/11/62 Per the Dec 1970 Frontier Employees Roster. -Jake Lamkins (10/14/20) FLacebook - FL Club Frontier Memorial Weppage Updated TOM BOREN 1962 - 1986 PILOT MKC AMA GSW DAL DFW DEN http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Tom_Boren.html Still need a photo of Tom. Post your remembrances. -Jake Lamkins (10/17/20) Bonnie Dahl Boy he was with FAL for 24 years! Bless you Tom! (10/17/20)