thedrifter
03-24-09, 07:11 AM
Mother of Ore. pilot says her son loved to fly
by Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The mother of Kevin Mosley, the pilot who was killed when his FedEx plane crashed in Japan, said her son was a veteran pilot who started flying when he was 16 and joined the Marines to learn how to fly larger airplanes.
Patricia Fullenwider told The Oregonian newspaper Monday that her 54-year-old son had a wife and two daughters.
"He was outstanding," she told the newspaper. "They adored him and he adored them. He called his wife every night and he called me a couple of times a week. He did everything for me that he could possibly do."
Mosley died with his co-pilot, Anthony Stephen Pino, 49, of San Antonio, Texas. The cargo plane they were flying burst into flames after landing and bouncing off a runway at Tokyo's main international airport, authorities said.
They were the only people on board the airplane, which they flew from Guangzhou, China, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
Fullenwider said her son flew for FedEx for 10 years, and before that he flew for Horizon airlines.
Mosley and his wife, Marissa, have two grown daughters who live in Bethany, and they have one granddaughter, Fullenwider said.
Fullenwider said her son was raised in Forest Grove and Hillsboro. He graduated from Hillsboro High School, she said, and attended Linfield College.
Fullenwider didn't return calls placed by The Associated Press.
Ellie
by Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The mother of Kevin Mosley, the pilot who was killed when his FedEx plane crashed in Japan, said her son was a veteran pilot who started flying when he was 16 and joined the Marines to learn how to fly larger airplanes.
Patricia Fullenwider told The Oregonian newspaper Monday that her 54-year-old son had a wife and two daughters.
"He was outstanding," she told the newspaper. "They adored him and he adored them. He called his wife every night and he called me a couple of times a week. He did everything for me that he could possibly do."
Mosley died with his co-pilot, Anthony Stephen Pino, 49, of San Antonio, Texas. The cargo plane they were flying burst into flames after landing and bouncing off a runway at Tokyo's main international airport, authorities said.
They were the only people on board the airplane, which they flew from Guangzhou, China, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
Fullenwider said her son flew for FedEx for 10 years, and before that he flew for Horizon airlines.
Mosley and his wife, Marissa, have two grown daughters who live in Bethany, and they have one granddaughter, Fullenwider said.
Fullenwider said her son was raised in Forest Grove and Hillsboro. He graduated from Hillsboro High School, she said, and attended Linfield College.
Fullenwider didn't return calls placed by The Associated Press.
Ellie