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My heart just breaks for the families and friends of those involved.

To our own Chalks Ops...prayers and phin power to you...we're holding you close in our hearts.

To the entire Chalks family....prayers and phin power to your during this tragic time.

Phins from Canada.

Prayers to families and friends to those that have passed on.

Tons of Prayers and PHlorida PHIN Power heading to the victims and their families.

Prayers and PHIN Power to our own Chalks Ops and the entire Chalk Ocean Airways family.

conched wrote:Here is a link to photos of seaplanes posted last year.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/seaplane66/my_photos

Thanks Nancy

Prayers and Phin power for all involved on the
way from Marie and I

The news just keeps replaying the video over and over. Enough is enough. People with family aboard have to watch that knowing their loved one is in there. After the Challenger accident, there was a rule that the video should not be aired anymore unless it was to analyze causes. They should do that here, but they play it over and over and over. Then they play it in slow motion.

just saw the video on CNN

Palmetto Phin Power to all the Families

Burny Charles wrote:The news just keeps replaying the video over and over. Enough is enough. People with family aboard have to watch that knowing their loved one is in there. After the Challenger accident, there was a rule that the video should not be aired anymore unless it was to analyze causes. They should do that here, but they play it over and over and over. Then they play it in slow motion.

It's like after 9/11. They just kept playing it over and over again for weeks, maybe even months. Those poor family members who have to relive it every time they play it. It's a shame that tragedy turns into a media event.

davesnik wrote:

Burny Charles wrote:The news just keeps replaying the video over and over. Enough is enough. People with family aboard have to watch that knowing their loved one is in there. After the Challenger accident, there was a rule that the video should not be aired anymore unless it was to analyze causes. They should do that here, but they play it over and over and over. Then they play it in slow motion.

It's like after 9/11. They just kept playing it over and over again for weeks, maybe even months. Those poor family members who have to relive it every time they play it. It's a shame that tragedy turns into a media event.

However wrong it is, people want to see it. I'm sure the media would rather have millions watching their station instead of catering to the feelings of families who have to watch their loved ones parish. It's the American people as a majority....like those damn gawkers who stop up traffic lookign at accidents.

IrishG wrote:However wrong it is, people want to see it. I'm sure the media would rather have millions watching their station instead of catering to the feelings of families who have to watch their loved ones parish. It's the American people as a majority....like those damn gawkers who stop up traffic lookign at accidents.

It's a sad day in our society when we care more about the news than the people.

Supposed to be a news conference at 10:00AM, streaming on: http://www.nbc6.net/videostream/4639451/detail.html

Story from Miami Channel 6: http://www.nbc6.net/news/5578502/detail.html

*EDIT* News conference supposedly now scheduled for 1:00PM.

Heartbreaking! Prayers and thoughts to the families of passengers and crew.

Here is something I think of from time to time when the going gets rough and life gets too scary:

Launch out into the deep and see
What your harvesting will be:
Let down the net: better to find
A monster there, than stay behind
Combing a leeward shore, content to ken
Wreckage of ventures lost by braver men.

- Freda C. Bond

Perhaps this would be absolutely no comfort at all to most folks, but I think it says something about why we all get out of bed in the morning and tackle head-on that risky thing called life.

I keep logging in to see if anyone has heard from Chalksoperations.

Still praying for his safety....Any for those families who have lost loved ones....

Did I miss a post from Chalks Ops? I just cannot stop thinking about this horrible crash

if anyone know chalksops name would you please PM me.....

No - his last post was Dec 14th.... There is no other info on the CHalks Website.... a little scary!! I really hope he is OK!!

nutmeg wrote:I keep logging in to see if anyone has heard from Chalksoperations.

Still praying for his safety....Any for those families who have lost loved ones....

Me too, Nutmeg, me too.

Oh my gosh, Phinpower to all families/friends of the crash and the Chalks people.
Have they given out the names of the pilots yet?

citcat wrote:Oh my gosh, Phinpower to all families/friends of the crash and the Chalks people.
Have they given out the names of the pilots yet?

not yet

In what was one of my more-lucid moments, I called Brendan's office hoping the line would not be busy. The gentleman answering the phone stated that he wasn't in yet, but would be later this afternoon. He was in the office yesterday afternoon with the Grumman went down, and did not find out about it until the story broke on the news.

Repeating the top story of the hour: It appears Conch Man/Chalksoperations is OK!!!