.... Some days are hard.

[lithera]

There was a man I met on Friday here at work.

He'd just gotten back from a vacation in Bora Bora. He was a very genial and intelligent guy from what I could tell...

He was killed yesterday flying his plane.

I... I don't know what to say right now but I'm a little bit shaken. It's always so... weird when this happens right after you meet someone.

Comments

[mad-cat.livejournal.com]

*hug*

[sepulchrave.livejournal.com]

was he flying his own plane or was this in a commercial plane crash?

(sorry to hear this)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

He was flying his own plane.

[natasthellama.livejournal.com]

I know that this will probably not help but it sounds as though he may have been doing something he loved to do when he died. Very few people get a pilot's license unless they really love it.

[arctures.livejournal.com]

*hug*

Ouch.

[ocicat.livejournal.com]

Was it an accident? "Was killed" makes it sound like he was shot down or something...

Anyway, I'm sorry. That's always really strange, regardless of how it happened. When I was a kid I went to an older (teenage) neighbor's birthday party. She met this cool european guy who was hitchhiking throught the states. I liked him.

Two days later, she identified his body, which had been found in a ditch after being murdered.

*shiver*

[lithera.livejournal.com]

It looks like mechanical failure. He was doing touch and go landings and the plane headed towards the ground and just caught on fire and slammed into a wall.

It's really weird.