A sampling of folklore definitions through the years: 2007AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY:Folklore is the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice that is disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral example.
The pilots of the 1st Black Hawk shot down, Cliff Wolcott and his copilot, were wedged in the wrecked cockpit pretty tightly & the crash had kicked up a lot of dirt, partially burying both of them. The guys doing the extraction had to cut the entire front end of the chopper apart around both bodies to get them out.
Death of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. On August 17, 1935, Eddie Rickenbacker, an airline executive and former World War I flying ace, comments on the loss of American humorist Will Rogers and famous aviator Wiley Post. The two men were killed in an airplane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska.