Plane crash kills 68, Sam Perkins not onboard as initally thought

Posted Aug 28, 2008
Bonner is director of basketball operations for the University of Louisville. She and NBA star Sam Perkins were playing in a 3-on-3 basketball tournament in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan on behalf of the U.S. Embassy when, to spare what they had considered an unsafe and unpleasant plane ride, they decided to spend five hours driving over mountains to catch a flight to Germany. The plane Bonner and Perkins were thought to be on crashed, killing 68 passengers. (Concord Monitor)

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