Saturday, June 21, 2008

Jeanette Symons Packed a Lot Into a Tragically Short Life

Sometimes a tragedy hits close to home, and sometimes it does so quite literally. Such was the tragedy that occurred on Friday, February 1, 2008, when a Cessna Citation C-525 crashed into the woods near West Gardiner, Maine, just minutes after takeoff from Augusta State Airport. The pilot was Jeanette Symons, 45; her sole passenger, her son, Balan, 10. Apparently eager to return home after a week attending ski camp at Sugarloaf, they took off in extremely unfavorable weather conditions. Neither survived.

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