U-M Professor Shaun Jackson Dies from Burns Suffered in Plane Crash

(Michigan)
William Shaun Jackson, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design, died Tuesday from burns suffered in a small plane crash last weekend near Sarasota, Fla. Jackson, 63, known to friends, colleagues and family members as Shaun, was considering buying the seaplane and had gone to Florida to look at it and test it out, his business partner said. Jackson, who belonged to the Michigan Flyers flying club, had owned planes in the past and wanted a seaplane to use for trips from Ann Arbor to his cottage in Canada, located near the water, said his business partner, Mark Zadvinskis. “He had been dreaming about this float plane,” he said. [The plane crashed on the New College Bayfront Campus.]