AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUGH

[cjsmith]

A friend of mine just died. Helicopter crash, no survivors.

Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn.

I was closer to his wife than to him, so I guess I should say a friend of mine just lost her husband. She's a wreck right now. Hasn't eaten for a day, that sort of thing.

Damn.

Some phone calls you just don't want to get. Ugh. Sigh.

Now comes the rounds of telephoning, the staying with her so that she will eat, the organizing some kind of memorial...

Damn.

Comments

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. *hugs* to you. I had a good friend who was a flying nurse. Helicopter crash. Nevada. Still hurts to think about. I'm thinking of your friend, and you.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ow. Those helicopters, when they go, they go pretty badly, don't they? I hear of airplane crashes where there are nonfatal injuries. With a copter, it seems to be "machine may be totaled but the people are fine" OR "all aboard died", no middle ground.

siiiiiiigh. He loved flying. Had emergency floats on, so even when he flew over water he'd have a landing spot available. The helicopter was found in a lake, upside down, pontoons deployed. Clearly he knew there was trouble and was trying to land it...

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[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Kathy Batterman was her name, and they were flying back to HQ at night after dropping a patient at a hospital. The pilot became disoriented and flew the copter straight into the ground.

http://www.astna.org/concern/flightforlife1.html

I still cry when I read that. She was an amazing person, doing what she *loved* to do.