Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, August 24, 1995                   TAG: 9508240067
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
DATELINE: DRAPER, VA.                                LENGTH: Short

PILOT WAS A NATIVE OF PULASKI COUNTY

Ed Gannaway, one of five people killed aboard the Atlantic Southeast Airlines plane, managed to keep the crippled craft from crashing into homes.

"Well, he's just that type. He'd save someone else knowing he was going to go out," his aunt, Cabell Giles, said Wednesday in Roanoke. "He was crazy about flying. Always had been ... That was his real life."

Gannaway was born in Pulaski County and lived in Draper in his preteen years. Giles also lived there at the time, and was the sister of his father, Lawrence Gannaway.

She said his father died in 1956. His mother, Pat, remarried about five years later and moved to Winston-Salem, N.C., where Gannaway grew up. She died just a few months ago and was interred in Draper.

Several cousins still living in Draper recalled that, as a boy, Gannaway made occasional summertime visits to Virginia.

Giles said he was working his way up to a larger airline.