After winning the U.S. junior title in 1961 , Hoyt had tickets to be on Sabena Flight 548 to attend the World Figure Skating Championships . He cancelled at the last moment , and so was not on the flight when the plane crashed , killing everyone aboard . Hoyt graduated from the University of Denver and was a Marshall scholar at Oxford , graduating in PPE from Corpus Christi College in 1967 . Later in life , Hoyt was a member of the Presidential Commission on Olympic Sports . He died of melanoma at age 53
Sabena Flight 548
Sabena Flight 548
Monty Hoyt