More hurricane fatalities -- in a Skymaster

[Pat Schmitz]

That is sad -

He apparently was a 'student pilot' since June, and he made the decision to put his wife and two children in a plane (at night) to make this trip (illegally, if the stated facts on the Cival Air Patrol website are correct).

They made no comment on weather conditions at the time, but he was apparently trying to get out of town before the storm hit...

Like all too often, a series of bad decisions led up to a disasterous end-result.