My brother was killed yesterday.

[Tap]

Sincere condolences

[beaterdit]

Damn Dude. Sorry.

[Micol]

Sorry for your loss

[Dexter Rutecki]

Incredibly sorry to hear this, Stuck. Best to you and your family.

[Gepeto]

That's bullshit.-
Might be time for some Top Gun.

What happened to "I Don't judge" ?

[Gepeto]

I've got a few hours in a Cub and similar canvas and dope airframes. A whopping 90 knots and lots of noise. A tail wind and you think you are about to bust the sound barrier. A head wind and you feel like a moth. A tail dragger is a special snowflake. The sense of flight is always palpable.

Lots of people only dream of what your brother made his reality.

His light will be bright inside of you for the rest of your life.

Some times it will burn, most of the time it will illuminate.

Continue to share... pm with any thoughts you struggle with.

Lots of the collective concerned with how you're doing Stuckie

[DasBlunt]

Sorry to hear dude, sending good vibes...

[Yonder_River]

Life altering for sure. Very sorry for the loss of your bros life. Be sure to keep the good memories alive.

[ex-powderbroker]

I am so sorry for your loss, Stuck, that's incredibly rough. May he rest in peace and may you also find some with your family.

[skifishbum]

being a maggot means you never really roll alone
please add my mountain hippie vibes and a chunk of e-strength and thoughts
to the collective communities offerings

[stuckathuntermtn]

That's bullshit. Every pilot, especially in AK, aims to fly clean.

There are no mental excuses for accidents as much as you would want to think that: OH, I'm bound to get caught in an avi this year... BULLSHIT.

It's fucking one-in-a-million. Shit does happen.

I understand wanting to put some fate on it, but it's BS. He was not a kamikaze. Shit just happened.

Might be time for some Top Gun.

I think you misunderstood me. It's ok.
Aviation accidents are pretty common in AK. Small planes, single engines, bad weather. It just usually involves 1 plane. You can only roll the dice so many times. I'm not looking for any greater reason.

[strawjack]

Sorry for your loss.

[hatchgreenchile]

Stuck, I'm sorry for your loss, and hope things go as well as they can for you & family.

[skiJ]

I think you misunderstood me. It's ok.
Aviation accidents are pretty common in AK. Small planes, single engines, bad weather. It just usually involves 1 plane. You can only roll the dice so many times. I'm not looking for any greater reason.

stuck. --

my Condolences to you and your Family . . .

you response to Makers. message is Very gracious...

There have been substantial threads here about Risk management --
bush flying in AK has significant Risk ;
things do happen . . .

The outpouring of condolences here can be very touching...

wishing you peace... skiJ

[Flounder]

Shit, that sucks. Sorry for your family's loss.

[Moeghoul]

Sad to hear this, Stuck. Vibes to you and your family.

[stuckathuntermtn]

My dad said something last night. He said it's like Icarus flying too close to the sun. Really rings true.

[Millsie]

So very sorry for your loss.

[Rip'nStick]

My condolences. We always try and attribute tragedy to some reason, and there are riskier activities than others but it doesn't have to make sense. In the tragedies in my life it was only after I stopped trying to make sense of it a grieved and accepted it that I I felt at peace. Some part of you will always grieve. You just treat that part like an old friend after a while. It will take some time to get there. So sorry it had to happen to you and your family

[TAFKALVS]

Sorry for the loss.

[stuckathuntermtn]

My condolences. We always try and attribute tragedy to some reason, and there are riskier activities than others but it doesn't have to make sense. In the tragedies in my life it was only after I stopped trying to make sense of it a grieved and accepted it that I I felt at peace. Some part of you will always grieve. You just treat that part like an old friend after a while. It will take some time to get there. So sorry it had to happen to you and your family

I honestly haven't been looking for reason or someone or something too blame. It wouldn't get me my brother back. Even if it was straight up negligence on the part of the other pilot, he's dead too. His family is going through the same thing. He might even have left children behind. The NTSB investigation might take a year.

I'm not religious or spiritual. I don't believe in a god of any kind.

Neither did he, actually.
I don't know if that would help or not.
It doesn't help that he was doing what he loved.
If he died at a desk, we'd at least have his body.
They haven't even been able to get a chopper in yet to recover the bodies.
Then it's over to Anchorage to the Medical Examiner.
It might be another week.
His friend was in the field guiding for the same outfit. I guess he'll be bringing the body back and whatever few personal effects. Like his wedding ring. Maybe some more of his AK friends have come down.
Idk what we're doing with his remains.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Oh, I guess we're cremating him. We'll all keep some of the ashes. Some of them need to be scattered in three different places: the Kinderhook river in Stephentown, NY. The Madison here in Montana, and somewhere in AK. Hopefully the Brooks Range.
I don't know how everyone is keeping such composure right now putting together his obit.
I deal with this. I can't reminisce about the good times yet. I can't see all the pictures on Facebook. It's too hard.
I never understood hero worship. Especially celebrity hero worship.
Now I realize that it was my brother.

[Shredhead]

Vibes.

I hadn't talked to mine in a couple of months, so I called him yesterday just to touch base, because you just never know.

[nutmegchoi]

Oh, my god...
I'm so sorry.
My deepest condolences to you and your family.

[AK47bp]

Shit.

It's going to get way harder before it gets better. Sorry

My best friend who was a brother to me died suddenly March 1st. 6 months later now it's harder than it was. Living apart, like it sounds you were, drags out the process because you are not used to seeing them all the time. It sinks in so slowly.

I went from thinking about him every 3 minutes to now about every hour or two.

I wish he didn't have an open casket because that image is now burned in my brain, I'd of rather had a different visual memory of him.

It's fucking terrible, life is fragile and precious, be strong for your family, especially your mom if she's still around.

One cool thing is because he is on my mind so much he is in my dreams about once a week. I actually wake up feeling like I hung out with him and it feels good. The mind is a powerful thing.

Good luck to you.