Craziest story ever... And what's even crazier is that I cannot even share this with my wife... or family as they will forever be paranoid every time I go out for a flight. I fly out of Nadeau Air Service Flight School in Trois-Rivieres (Three-Rivers), Quebec, and this has been a terribly tragic week.

Let me explain the turn of events, and then seek answers/suggestions from other flying enthusiasts on the Breitling Board. I'm devastated.

During this past week-end, I had been flying with my admired and competent flight instructor trying to catch-up on practicing various drills on a Cessna 172. We had some great flights and rehearsed a bunch of things such as spins, slow-flight, spirals, and a few other maneuvers. It was a lot of fun. He was telling me about some upcoming flights he was to do on a Piper Seneca as well as pick-up a newly acquired Lake out of Alberta.

On Monday, mid-afternoon, my instructor had set on a Piper Seneca with another student to work - on all things - emergency landings. During their flight, one of the engines caught fire, and they crash-landed. Miraculously, they both survived. They are still in critical condition, but thank God, they're alive. The plane was mangled and totaled. You can take a peek of what the plane looked like after the crash here:
http://www.lapresse.ca/le-nouvelliste/justice-et-faits-divers/201210/17/01-4584076-ecrasement-a-princeville-cest-miraculeux-quils-sen-soient-sortis.php

Here where the twisted story gets even worse....

Yesterday Nadeau Air Service, which had been contracted to pick-up a plane, A Lake LA 250 in Alberta was on their way back to Trois-Rivieres. For no apparent reason thus far reported, their plane crashed and 3 out of the 4 passengers, including the pilot (the owner of the flight school), his head mechanic, and the new owner of the aircraft perished. The small community of Trois-Rivieres is in shock. How can 2 planes go down in 2 days? OMG!!! Now, my instructor was to be one of the co-pilots for this return flight on the Lake from Alberta. This is just unbelievable. He crashes on Monday, yet Tuesday he was to be aboard the doomed Lake flight. See details here:
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/10/17/three-die-in-plane-crash-in-northwestern-ontario

For those of you who are pilots out there, who may have experienced something similar... how do you cope? I am just a pilot-in-training and I am questioning doing one of my favorite passions ever. You know the feeling that flying gives you? I mourn the loss of my friends and the terrible sorrow that this has brought the community.

When my wife comes back to town, and hears about these tragedies, she'll freak out if I continue to pursue my license.

I can use some advice. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I bought a Navitimer World a while back as an inspiration to taking up flight school. People are dead today with whom we shared last week-end flying the sunny skies. Today, however, my Breitling is just a watch.

Thanks.

P.S. Sorry for the run-on and grammatically poor sentence structure. I'm in a daze.