Place of death Chelsea, Victoria Original team(s) Benalla | Height/Weight 184 cm / 85.5 kg Name John Stephenson | |
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Full name John Francis Stephenson Date of birth (1937-05-14)14 May 1937 Date of death 14 October 2014(2014-10-14) (aged 77) | ||
John Stephenson (14 May 1937 – 14 October 2014) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The son of Jack Stephenson, who also played for Carlton, he was recruited from Benalla, but only played a single league game in 1958.
In 1989 he was a passenger on United Airlines Flight 811, where 9 people died after being blown out of the plane when the cargo door failed mid flight. Stephenson was seated 11 rows behind where the fuselage was breached. In October 2014, Stephenson was killed when the Van's RV-6 light aircraft he was piloting crashed in a house in the Melbourne suburb of Chelsea.
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