Herc Down (Merged)
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God Bless boys. The bar tonight was busier than most Happy Hours are - a fitting tribute to the personalities of you all, as it was the concerned who turned up tonight.
My thoughts now are with those who are left behind - wives and girlfriends; children and babies left to grow old without a parent. God, it's surprising this keyboard still works with the amount of water falling on it.
Blue skies and tailwinds. At least you went doing what you loved.
My thoughts now are with those who are left behind - wives and girlfriends; children and babies left to grow old without a parent. God, it's surprising this keyboard still works with the amount of water falling on it.
Blue skies and tailwinds. At least you went doing what you loved.
Join Date: Mar 2001
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This has brought back so many bad memories of the loss of 293 nearly 12 years ago.
I hope that in some small way the families and colleagues can feel the warmth from so many people across the globe at their lowest point.
Words are genuinely inadequate but be assured you are in our thoughts as are the memories of people doing a difficult job to the best of their ability.
Condolences from Canada.
I hope that in some small way the families and colleagues can feel the warmth from so many people across the globe at their lowest point.
Words are genuinely inadequate but be assured you are in our thoughts as are the memories of people doing a difficult job to the best of their ability.
Condolences from Canada.
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Sad day ! My heartfelt condolences to all, and all who knew and flew with them. Maybe I did in the all too recent past 
So our glasses will be raised with thoughts of the chat and piss taking, taken for granted that we were always safest in their hands and their tolerance and patience of our puppy like enthusiasm for sticking our heads in the bubble at any opportunity.
Poignant memories today of flying through the oil fire smoke and detritus of Kuwait in early 1991 with the best crews we could ever entrust our lives to !
So our glasses will be raised with thoughts of the chat and piss taking, taken for granted that we were always safest in their hands and their tolerance and patience of our puppy like enthusiasm for sticking our heads in the bubble at any opportunity.
Poignant memories today of flying through the oil fire smoke and detritus of Kuwait in early 1991 with the best crews we could ever entrust our lives to !
From an ex-Ascoteer - heartfelt sympathies to all.
Good to see that the BBC are still talking about 'soldiers' in isolation - cannot MOD at least correct their statements to reflect that members of both the RAF and Army have been lost ?
Good to see that the BBC are still talking about 'soldiers' in isolation - cannot MOD at least correct their statements to reflect that members of both the RAF and Army have been lost ?
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yetti
stop talking sh1te please.
speculation from all the news broadcasters and everyone else is starting to p*ss me off.
why dont we just think about the people that died and the loved ones left behind.
stop talking sh1te please.
speculation from all the news broadcasters and everyone else is starting to p*ss me off.
why dont we just think about the people that died and the loved ones left behind.
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A tragic loss. My thoughts and sympathies to the families, friends and colleagues of all those lost, be they aviators, support crew or pax.
"The cockpit was my office. It was a place where I experienced many emotions and learned many lessons. It was a place of work, but also a keeper of dreams. It was a place of deadly serious encounters, yet there I discovered much about life. I learned about joy and sorrow, pride and humility, and fear, and overcoming fear. I saw much from that office that most people would never see. At times it terrified me, yet I could always feel at home there... Though it was a place where I could quickly die, the cockpit was a place where I truly lived."
Brian Shul, "Sled Driver"
"The cockpit was my office. It was a place where I experienced many emotions and learned many lessons. It was a place of work, but also a keeper of dreams. It was a place of deadly serious encounters, yet there I discovered much about life. I learned about joy and sorrow, pride and humility, and fear, and overcoming fear. I saw much from that office that most people would never see. At times it terrified me, yet I could always feel at home there... Though it was a place where I could quickly die, the cockpit was a place where I truly lived."
Brian Shul, "Sled Driver"