Tough to reconcile daydream with death
This column ran in the Lewiston Sun Journal and the Bangor Daily News on Saturday, Aug. 21:
There's something romantic about bush pilots.
They fly into places without landing strips or runway lights. Into the wilderness. Into the wild.
Bush pilots - maybe all pilots - carry themselves with confidence. They are precise, professional, charismatic and cool.
Kathy Hodgkins fit that bill.
Hodgkins, who was 47, ran KT Aviation with her husband, Tim. Thursday morning, Aug. 12, she was killed when the plane she was piloting crashed near the peak of Big Houston Mountain in Piscataquis County. She was on her way to Lobster Lake to pick up a group of sports.
I flew with Hodgkins once and the trip left an impression on me that I haven't been able to shake, and feels spooky now. ...
For the rest:
www.sunjournal.com/opinion/columnist/20040821095.php
www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.cfm?ID=428990
There's something romantic about bush pilots.
They fly into places without landing strips or runway lights. Into the wilderness. Into the wild.
Bush pilots - maybe all pilots - carry themselves with confidence. They are precise, professional, charismatic and cool.
Kathy Hodgkins fit that bill.
Hodgkins, who was 47, ran KT Aviation with her husband, Tim. Thursday morning, Aug. 12, she was killed when the plane she was piloting crashed near the peak of Big Houston Mountain in Piscataquis County. She was on her way to Lobster Lake to pick up a group of sports.
I flew with Hodgkins once and the trip left an impression on me that I haven't been able to shake, and feels spooky now. ...
For the rest:
www.sunjournal.com/opinion/columnist/20040821095.php
www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.cfm?ID=428990
posted by David Farmer at 11:53 AM
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