Amaya Toman February 1981 was not a pleasant month for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. That's when the single-engine six-seater Beechcraft Bonanza A36TC he was piloting crashed. In addition to Wozniak, his fiancee Candi Clark, her brother and his girlfriend were on the plane at the time. Fortunately, no one was killed in the accident, but Wozniak suffered a head injury.
The plane crash happened just months after Apple's initial public offering. Wozniak's stake in the company earned him a respectable $116 million, but at the time Apple was undergoing major changes that Wozniak didn't like very much. His personal life was not twice as peaceful either. He was newly divorced from his first wife and was starting a new relationship with Candi, who worked at Apple as a secretary.
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On their first date, Wozniak took Candi to see a sci-fi movie at the movies. Even before the first date, however, he bought the entire cinema himself with money from shares. The couple in love quickly started planning their wedding. Wozniak came up with the idea of flying his own plane to visit Candi's uncle, who offered to design a wedding ring.
However, the start of the plane did not go well for Wozniak, who had only flown about fifty hours at that time. The machine took off too suddenly, stopped after a while and fell between two fences in the parking lot of a nearby skating rink. Wozniak later stated that it was possible that Candi had inadvertently leaned on the controls.
With memory loss and a head injury, Woz spent some time in the hospital. He spent most of his recovery playing video games and persuading his former Homebrew Computer Club colleague Dan Sokol to smuggle him pizza and milkshakes into the hospital.
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Woz slowly began to consider leaving Apple full-time. He returned to the company several times only to leave it again in frustration after some time. Technically speaking, Wozniak is still an employee of the Cupertino giant to this day, but already at that time he gradually began to focus on other things.
Source: Cult of Mac
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