Splash and Dash Searey Seaplane Delights                            Apr 29 11:56 Guest User - Request Membership Layout | Log In | Help | Videos | Site | Emails  Search:   Front Page Calendar Photos Add Photos News Add News File Cabinet Add File Cabinet History Add History * Searey Info * Add * Searey Info * Polls Add Polls Classifieds Add Classifieds Utilities Create a New Site  News View All News | Add News | Emoticons | Mark Unread Search News:      Category: 98,Accidents/Incidents, 33,Headline News Previous Item - Camping in Maine this weekend - I'm at a loss... This will go to the previous thread in this topic.       Favorite option: If you want this item to be marked as a favorite, click on the black heart.   Maybe we can all learn something from this tragedy         Next Item - Marston Mills DC3 This will go to the next thread in this topic.    Mark Alan MacKinnon - Aug 13,2004   Viewers  | Reply     A sad day today.<br /><br />One of my former flight instructors was killed in an avoidable accident. Kathy Hodgkins (the 'K' in KT Aviation) took off alone from their seaplane base on Pushaw Lake (Maine) yesterday morning in very marginal VFR conditions (low clouds) in a Cessna 172 on floats, on a charter flight to pick up a passenger on a lake north of Greenville, and never arrived. Civil Air Patrol, Maine Forest Service, Maine Warden Service and others searched today for her plane. Bad weather today limited the air search to a few Forest Service helicopters and fixed wing planes flying at low altitudes. Ground searchers found the wreckage with her body inside near the top of a mountain this afternoon.<br /><br />Kathy had hundreds of hours of experience and also flew for an overseas airline (I'm not sure which). She was one of my first instructors many years ago when I was getting my private and was also my seaplane instructor a few years ago.          Kenneth Leonard - Aug 13,2004   Viewers  | Reply     Mark, I'm truly sorry for your loss. I lost my high time instructor to icing last year.          Dan Nickens - Aug 13,2004   Viewers  | Reply     Instructors are the heros and heroines of aviation. Unfortunately even they are human.          Mark Alan MacKinnon - Aug 13,2004   Viewers  | Reply     I read later that she flew for Continental Airlines.<br /><br />The NTSB is going to the site tomorrow. They are going to airlift the plane out by helicopter after the investigation.

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