Loading ...She had 500 hours of flight time, considered normal, while Eaves had 1,000 hours.
Her best friend, First Lieutenant , an active-duty field artillery soldier, described her as brilliant, dedicated and a fierce competitor.
She said she would march 12 miles with a 45 pound pack, at a pace faster than the standard for infantry soldiers. She hoped to fly her Black Hawk at some point on a combat deployment and dreamed of one day becoming a doctor.
All three soldiers were on a training flight out of Fort Belvoir, Va., just south of Washington, at the time of the accident.
The family’s devastated. They said she was a bright star in all our lives. She was kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong. No one dreamed bigger or worked harder to achieve her goals.”
I wonder if they never got the memo on the altitude when exercising check maneuvers.
Who ordered only 3 set of eyes when they needed one more. She was a fantastic young person only 28 yrs old. A clear message is when you get some vague description of a aircraft around, keep looking.