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In the Puget Sound region (Seattle area), we have a medical airlift service called Northwest Airlift. The landing pad that services 2 hospitals in only a few blocks from my house. My daugher is 2, and she loves to go look at choppers when they land.

One day about a month ago, we came by on our bike (kid in trailer), and we stopped to look. There was a pilot sitting in the chopper waiting. He invited us over and let my daughter sit in the cockpit. He gave us pins that have the helicopter on them. He was so nice to my daugher and I.

His name was Steve Smith.

The chopper he was flying went down Friday, and he and his flight crew did not survive.

I'm guess I am an overly sensitive idiot, but this just tore my up. I knew about it yesterday, but I was afraid to look at the story because I feared it would be him....damn it......