Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Who has an airport named in his honor even though he ironically died in a plane crash?"
...These four were pioneering aviators, of course, so it’s clear what the airports meant to do in honouring them. And properly so. The problem, for the millions who suffer from a fear of flying, is that for all their achievements in the field these men invariably ended in a field. Or in the sea. That ultimate failure, self-evident and catastrophic, is all the aviophobe will remember about these aces; that good at flying, and even they can’t keep the things in the sky