The father of one of the young men killed in Monday's plane crash in Les Cèdres joined CJAD 800's Elias Makos on Thursday to speak of his son not as a victim, but as a passionate and dedicated young man who died doing something he absolutely loved.
20-year-old Jared Logan, along with his friend 21-year-old Alex McIntyre, died in Monday night's crash. Despite his grief, Logan's father Ian spoke about the experience of losing a son, and the moment police officers knocked on his door to give him the bad news.
"There are no words to describe how I feel." Ian Logan said. "For people who have never lost a child, I hope you never know how I feel.
"But for me, I just wanted to talk about Jared, because I've seen the news reports, they talk about the crash, I've seen the awful pictures...I want him to be remembered as the amazing young man that he was. Not as a victim, not as a hole in the ground, as the amazing son that I knew and loved."
The elder Logan spoke about Jared's passion for aviation — a passion which eventually led him, as a teenager, to borrow money from relatives and spend his life savings on his own plane, a Cessna.
"He was passionate from an early age, pre-adolescent, that he wanted to be a pilot," he said. "He could talk to you about the plane, the workings of the plane, about navigation, about how airports work...about so many areas, and he loved it. And what more does a parent want more for their child than to do something that they love and be good at it?"
He says despite how dangerous his passion may have been, he never thought of standing in the way of Jared's ambitions.