Baronpilot244
Killick Stoker
Not sure if this should be in this section, but it seems appropriate as aviation is, in many ways, a family.
On February 22nd 2014 I was sitting in my hotel room when I got a call that two very close friends had been killed in a plane crash. I also knew the 3rd pilot, but just as an acquaintance.
Nevertheless it was a very sobering moment, especially seeing the pictures on the news of the broken airplane that I had flown for them, instructed them in and actually passed my ATP in.
https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/R...ID=20140222X51922&AKey=1&RType=Final&IType=FA
The accident report is hard to read knowing that my friend made a mistake and it cost three lives, I keep wondering if it would have happened had I been there. I felt very sorry for their families, they all left people behind.
I especially felt for their sons and daughters, all of who I had given flying lessons. They were deeply involved in aviation and the loss of their fathers had varying effects.
Just before Christmas I learned that one of the sons had gone missing, was found wandering in Tn where he was taken to hospital complaining of hearing voices. Unfortunately the hospital could not keep him there as they found no impairment for drugs or alcohol and deemed him fit. He discharged himself and drove away in his car before his family could get there to pick him up.
Last night I learned that his body had been found floating in a lake and I felt sick to my stomach. It appears they are waiting on confirmation at this point, but in all likelihood it is the young man.
http://fox17.com/news/local/body-re...ld-be-of-missing-georgia-man-vincent-rossetti
Such a tragedy for the families and so sad that this young man decided to take his life. He had evidently been depressed since the death of his father and it looks like it all became to much.
Not sure why I'm writing about this, but it's definitely shaken me and perhaps I needed a forum in which to "talk" about it.
Be safe
Bp244
On February 22nd 2014 I was sitting in my hotel room when I got a call that two very close friends had been killed in a plane crash. I also knew the 3rd pilot, but just as an acquaintance.
Nevertheless it was a very sobering moment, especially seeing the pictures on the news of the broken airplane that I had flown for them, instructed them in and actually passed my ATP in.
https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/R...ID=20140222X51922&AKey=1&RType=Final&IType=FA
The accident report is hard to read knowing that my friend made a mistake and it cost three lives, I keep wondering if it would have happened had I been there. I felt very sorry for their families, they all left people behind.
I especially felt for their sons and daughters, all of who I had given flying lessons. They were deeply involved in aviation and the loss of their fathers had varying effects.
Just before Christmas I learned that one of the sons had gone missing, was found wandering in Tn where he was taken to hospital complaining of hearing voices. Unfortunately the hospital could not keep him there as they found no impairment for drugs or alcohol and deemed him fit. He discharged himself and drove away in his car before his family could get there to pick him up.
Last night I learned that his body had been found floating in a lake and I felt sick to my stomach. It appears they are waiting on confirmation at this point, but in all likelihood it is the young man.
http://fox17.com/news/local/body-re...ld-be-of-missing-georgia-man-vincent-rossetti
Such a tragedy for the families and so sad that this young man decided to take his life. He had evidently been depressed since the death of his father and it looks like it all became to much.
Not sure why I'm writing about this, but it's definitely shaken me and perhaps I needed a forum in which to "talk" about it.
Be safe
Bp244