Gary Gordon

Gary Gordon is a character role-played by OnlyOmi.

Description
Gary Gordon is a retired American Airlines pilot who was involved in the famous crash landing of a 747-7 aircraft in the Los Santos River. He was the subject of the film "Gary Gordon, American Hero", being portrayed by Tom Hanks in the movie. As a result of his fame as a world class pilot and the film about his life and his heroic crash landing, he constantly refers to himself as "Gary Gordon, American Hero".

Gary Gordon is 79 years old and was born some time in 1942 in Dallas, Texas. Gordon served in the Korean war as a child soldier prodigy fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, which sparked his love for flying. After flying on an American Airlines flight from Cancun to Orlando, Florida in 1961, Gordon vowed to enter flight school and become a pilot as soon as possible. After 6 years in flight school, Gordon became a Junior Captain for American Airlines. Gordon served as a Junior Captain for American Airlines for 15 years, and as a Senior Captain for 12 years, encompassing his 27-year career as a commercial pilot.

In 1982, Gordon flew a domestic flight from Las Venturas to Los Santos International, and near the end of the trip his right engine blew out. With quick thinking and amazing wit, Gordon thought to divert the flight to the Los Santos River, and crash land the aircraft in the water to save all 314 passengers aboard. As a result of his heroism, Gordon became the subject of the film "Gary Gordon, American Hero", a 1993 film starring Tom Hanks, portraying the events of the famous crash-landing and some parts of his life, including three of his fourteen marriages.

Gary Gordon has been married 14 times. He revealed on his first day in Los Santos that he married his 14th wife in an Olive Garden, proposing to her by putting an engagement ring on a breadstick and getting down on one knee to offer it to her. They later divorced one year later, having their divorce papers signed over a mid-morning brunch at the same Olive Garden location.

Gordon has an obsession with Olive Garden, soup, Werthers Originals Hard Candies, and telling people about the BluRay edition of his hit autobiographical drama film, "Gary Gordon, American Hero".