Another accident that hits close to home... the First Officer (Rebecca Shaw) was a fellow classmate and friend of mine through college at Central Washington University. We both began the flight program at the same time and were in nearly every class together for four years, and even had the same instructor for instrument training. I've done dozens of projects and presentations with her. It was always a pleasure working with her. Toward the end of our instrument training I would ride along in the backseat on the cross country flights to observe and she did the same on my cross country flights. She was such a nice person and always did well in the classes.  Toward the end of our college experience she worked at the local FBO as dispatcher.  She was always a pleasant face to see before and after each flight.

Dang, 25 and I've nearly lost as many friends in aviation as my age!

I just heard about this on the news lastnight. Such a tragedy....