Gossip Friday: Flying Lessons

From June 1940:

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard have decided to buy a plane and learn to fly. Paul Mantz, who has a fat business flying elopers to Nevada, is set to give them instructions.

This is particularly eerie. As far as I know these lessons never happened and they never bought a plane. But what if they had? Would that have changed Carole’s fate? Interesting to ponder with the 68th anniversary of her death being tomorrow. I’ve often wondered too if Clark had accompanied Carole on the trip to Indiana, would they have taken the train together? Or would they have decided to take the plane back and both perished? We’ll never know.