AUBURN – Employees at Twin Cities Air Service were grieving the loss of one of their pilots Thursday night as they waited for details of the Bethel crash that killed four people.
President Nate Humphrey and a half-dozen others who gathered at the company’s headquarters at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport showed the strain of the situation in their faces as they awaited news from rescuers.
“We are deeply saddened by this incident,” Humphrey read from a statement to the media. He declined to give further information, saying it would be contained in the news release.
Others dressed in matching blue-collared polo shirts with insignias surrounded him, as they tried to absorb the news.
Twin Cities Air Service Inc. provides charter, flight school and maintenance services at 81 Airport Road.
It has been in operation since 1994.
According to its Web site, it offers several flight instruction packages, from Discovery Flight for $45 that pays for about 30 minutes of flight time with the student actually flying the plane, to Private Pilot Certificate for $3,825 that pays for 50 hours of flight time (30 with the instructor), 20 solo flights, textbook and other materials and 10 hours of ground instruction and Instrument Rating for $4,175 that includes 45 hours of C-172 flight time, 20 with the instructor, 25 solo (with safety pilot) and 10 hours of ground instruction.
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