Vale Captain Brian Mulqueen.

[Wayne Jenkins]

To all Brain’s friends and colleagues.

Late this afternoon, Brian passed away in the presence of his family, after a long fight with cancer.

A good man who will never be forgotten.

Brian managed our S76 program and will be missed by many of his friends and work colleagues.

For all his friends that feel they want to, but can’t contact Mary or their family, I will assist in passing on of information regarding the arrangements for this coming week.

I can be contacted at:

Wayne Jenkins
Chief Pilot / Operations Manager
Jayrow Helicopters

Phone [Direct]: +61 3 8551 1517
Phone [Office]: +61 3 8551 1500
Fax: +61 3 9551 0016
Mobile: +61 418848133
E:Mail: [email protected]

I suggest e-mail is best. Please note that I am at UTC +10.

Wayne.

[Alex N Crawford]

Brian and I lived and worked together at ESSO many years ago and became great Mates. It was only a couple of months ago my little Boy and his beautiful daughter were jumping on his trampoline, while we had coffee and talked about the old times.
It is a sad day.
My condolences to Mary, Isabella, Natasha and to Brians Family Lois, Kev, Tony, Ricky and Donna.

I'll miss you heeps KIWI
Alex, Lenice and Jett.

[PO dust devil]

A good man, respected professionally and personally, who will be missed.
Condolences to Mary and the family.
DD

[warrantycruise]

It is indeed a very sad day for Brian's family and his many friends in the industry. We will all miss your humour, honesty and friendship.
My condolences to Mary, Isabella, Natasha.

Blue Skies KIWI
Marcus

[VHAUS]

It is truly a sad day. While our contact was only brief, you left a lasting impression. Condolences to the Mary and the family.
Frank B

[Bol-kowboy]

To Mary and the girls my sincere condolences.

Brian was a good man taken away in his prime. A friend to everyone, who will be sorely missed.

Rest in Peace, Bro.......

Lills

[Neil Elvin]

A sad day. You are and always will be regarded as a great aviator mate. I first met Kiwi at Jandakot Helicopters in Perth when I was learning to fly. He always gave good advice. I then got to work alongside him at Esso for a short while and shared plenty of yarns and laughs everytime I'd drive to Melbourne with him to catchup with Lisa and Mary.
I owe it to Brian for his guidance and support to me in aviation. It was great knowing you mate.
We'll miss you. R.I.P
My sincere condolences to Mary, Isabella, Natasha and Brian's family.
Neil, Lisa, Ben & Sam Elvin

[FlyingHead]

A true gentlemen he was. He will be miss by all. I had the chance to fly with him a few years ago and that was a good experience, like many others said before he had all the times good advices.

Brian now the sky is no longer the limit, fly high.

My sincere condolences to his family

FH

[Steve76]

Like Alex, Craig and Neil,
I met Kiwi in Sale in 2000. We shared a common bond in being New Zealanders battling along in Australian and a mutual understanding of how hard it was to get into the Helicopter business. I instantly liked Kiwi because he let me do his afternoon flights and I was super keen to fly.

Nobody in this game worked harder than Kiwi to get a start and make it to the level of sucess he achieved. He just kept on working through the disappointments and never let the bastards get him down. I wonder if he still has that list of people he wanted to visit with a baseball bat? :)

He left Sale and the S76 to do 18 months on the tuna boats out of Guam and I still laugh to myself when I think of the stories about how long he made one jar of Marmite last during one tour (down to sniffing the empty jar) his subsequent dislike for tuna and the histerically funny story of the turtle stuck in the net...

This was a man you wanted to be around, he was funny, entertaining and an extremely competent pilot. Above all, I am most impressed with his role as a father and family man.

Nobody will deny this is a tragedy and I mourn the loss of our friend. Mary - I am so sorry and those words seem so pathetic compared to your experience right now. Kiwi was loved and respected and we all grieve with you.

Kiwi my Mate - I'm going to catch a cray for you, cook it at Pukehina beach, break off the tail and toast you with a Tui's.
Kia Kaha Bro.

Stephen Boyce
British Columbia
Canada

[Super 61]

On behalf of all of Kiwi's CHC mates in Thailand, our sincere condolences to Brians families. We all have a lot of happy memories of good times at the Corner Beer, long nights on Erewan, and of some epic Canada / UK / New Zealand / Australia tennis matches in the scorching midday sun when we were all much fitter. A top bloke who will be sadly missed by all who knew him.

Mike Price CHC Songkhla

[cupajo]

Kiwi - a top pilot and a really great bloke, you will be deeply missed my friend.
Our thoughts are with Mary and the girls.
Glenn, Nicola and Family.

[pjtickn]

A sad day, a great loss, a new beginning.

Pete

[WDMACC]

Between Oct 96 and Mar 05 Brian (KIWI) spent nearly 3 years at Esso both as a Co pilot and later as a Captain. During his time at Esso, he made many friends, no enemies and I had the honour of being able to call 'KIWI' my friend

KIWI always had a positive spin to put on things and the attitude to go with it. He had a wonderfully wicked sense of humour and always did what was right rather than what some others thought was right.

Our thoughts are with Mary and family and our words are inadequate to express our real thoughts and grief.

From everyone at Esso, thanks for being part of our lives. We sadly miss you, our great friend.
Bill MacCubbin

[Brian Abraham]

Fly to the angels
Do not land
God has taken hold your hand
Many flights you have made
Memories will never fade
Take to the skies a final time
Far above the clouds to climb
Do not stop
The skies deep blue
Keep on climbing
You must do
You’ve landed now
In heaven’s field
Your journey’s done
You’ve found such peace
On this sweet flight
Goodbye, God bless
Sleep tight

Vale Brian, tis not a battle lost, but a new beginning for all. Condolences to all your nearest and dearest.

[Wayne Jenkins]

Brian's Memorial Service will be held this Thursday [June 14] at the Springvale Botanical Cemetery [The Necropolis] on the Princess Highway, Springvale.

The ceremony will commence in the Boyd Chapel at 1230hrs.

[SICKorSKI]

Three things come to mind when I think of you Kiwi,
A gentleman
A Family man
A true Aviation professional.
My fondest memories of working here in Thailand are of times we shared. Birdies on 17th at Southern hills. The Rugby world cup ,,even though the wrong team won. A good glass of Red at our place and cold beers at yours! And thanks again for getting me to the airport on time!
When we learned of the sad news here, the place stood still. You were so well respected amongst everyone who ever met you.
Mary, sincerest condolences from Kathy and I for the terrible loss you and your family have suffered.Rob Cavers .CHC

[zebedee]

I did not know Brian but obviously he was a well liked, well respected Man in both his private and professional lives. His passing is a sad loss to his family and friends.
That said, to describe the natural, and to some extent expected end of a person's life as a "terrible" loss diminishes what others are going through when, for example, their two year old daughter is abducted by persons unknown, for reasons unknown.
Please let's remember what "terrible" means.
Zeb.

[brame]

Zeb

I knew Brian and his passing is a “terrible” tragedy to all that knew him. Wayne Jenkins original post on this thread was “To all Brain’s friends and colleagues” and as it would appear that you where neither, please make your comments elsewhere.

Brame

[TukTuk BoomBoom]

zebedee..just shut the hell up

I worked with Brian back in '99 on the Ocean Master and i couldnt have had a better pilot to work with out there.

The story that makes me laugh the most is from one of our overnights in Pohnpei while the boat unloaded fish.
We had been drinking with one of the other kiwi pilots off the boats and our boat left without us early the next morning and we had to get taken from the hotel out to the ocean Master on a skiff while it was sailing out of the lagoon.
We stood on the deck watching the island in the morning sun and thought we go and wake the other pilot up we'd been drinking with since we had to get out of bed and he didnt.
So we faked a maintenance test flight and took off and flew right up to his balcony of the hotel he was staying in and hovered there blowing over all the beer cans on his table and attracting the attention of some local guy who came out shaking his fists, with quite a few other guests (who seem to enjoy the show). The other pilot didnt come out and so we booked, round to the restaurant on the hill for a breakfast wake up call hovering off their balcony (which they loved and treated us like celebrities everytime we went back there) then after a short flight round to some waterfalls went back to the boat and back to work.
The next day we had a company fax telling us we had created an international incident with the FAA, Australian Foriegn affairs and CAA and the FSM Minister for Transport and Communications (he had been the guy shaking his fist at us as we hovered outside the second floor balcony at the hotel he was having a quite sunday breakfast in, the guy we'd given the finger too)
All was smoothed over and the $10,000 fine avoided due to our convincing denials of all of it.....
You probably cant get away with that stuff now but we certainly got into the spirit of it all.
There were a few more adventures like that and it was enough to make 6 months on a Korean tuna boat a real career highlight.
He was a great guy Brian and it wouldnt have been as much fun out there without him.
Rest in Peace Mate

[Bol-kowboy]

Zebedee,

"terrible" as defined by the Oxford dictionary
- causing one to feel very unhappy or upset.

As I feel both, it is terrible.

Maybe the moderator should consider removing your comments as they are not welcome here.......

[Hans Simon]

I'm not a 'pruner' normally, but this one deserves a post.

Whilst so much has been said already, there is so much more to say and then too, words can never be enough.

Brian was a good worker, a good guy and to quite a few of us a good friend as well.

Kiwi was 38 years old and leaves behind a wife and 2 children, their youngest only 4.

Now that we've had the service, said some words, shed some tears and caught up with friends from around the world, we have to get back to the business of sorting life.

In the process of preparing for the funeral, I came to realise that I have quite a few digital photos of Kiwi mostly from our time in Thailand.
Maybe I can share some with a few of his mates for your logbooks or whatever. Let me know.

Brian will be missed by all of his friends and workmates past and present, but his family has a more difficult time ahead. Indeed a 'terrible' loss.

To Mary and the girls, to parents Kevin and Lois, Tony, Ricky and Donna his siblings, our thoughts are with you as you grieve.

Let's hope we can offer support when it's right.

Rest in peace Brian, until we meet again.

Hans

[Venator]

I had the pleasure of meeting and spending some time with Brian in 98-99 on the Tuna boats out of Guam.
I would describe Brian as a thoroughly splendid bugger, a man's man, his sense of humour and yarning made him great to be around.
One rather memorable night out in Guam with Brian and another kiwi fellow saw us drinking 'Mudslides' all night by an idyllic looking waterfront bar, however, I found myself spending a significant part of the evening lying face down on a beach volleyball court....happy days.

I won't forget ya mate.

My condolences and best wishes to Brian's family and friends.

[Steve76]

Hans, I would very much like some of those digital photos of Kiwi. Just as you said - for the logbook. I think that would be a prudent place for them.

Good to hear you.

Stephen Boyce
[email protected]