"Press Your Luck" host Peter Tomarken has died

[AmericanErrorist]

A former TV game show host and his wife were killed Monday morning when their small plane crashed into Santa Monica Bay, authorities said. Rescue crews were searching for a third person also aboard the plane.

The bodies of Peter Tomarken, 63, host of the hit 1980s game show "Press Your Luck," and his wife, Kathleen Abigail Tomarken, 41, were identified by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.

The plane was on its way to San Diego to ferry a medical patient to the UCLA Medical Center, said Doug Griffith, a spokesman for Angel Flight West, a nonprofit which provides free air transportation for needy patients.

Griffith said the pilot was a volunteer for the group. According to the FAA, the plane was registered to Tomarken and he was the pilot.

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[Dave Sund]

1. C'mon, Big Bucks, Big Bucks, No Wammies! Stop!

[LSdemocrat]

2. Bad news indeed

[Deja Q]

3. Well, he got the whammy... and a question about the show?

But then again, we all do at some point.

The show also became predictable as to track the lights. I doubt it stayed successful for too long as people started seeing and thinking through the pattern... In 1984, ANY home PC could be used to generate truly random code... so why wasn't one used to ensure nobody COULD cheat?!