Pam Loggins dropped to her knees.
She recognized the registration code — N8878E — down the side of
the plane. It belonged to her son, Nick Loggins, 18, of Elkmont. With tears streaming down her cheeks, the mother choked out the words he would tell her when she worried about him flying:
“He would tell me not to worry. That if something happened to him while he was flying, then he was doing what he loved.
Nick Loggins crashed his
1977 Piper Warrior into the yard of an abandoned home on Veto Road on
Saturday afternoon and died a few miles down the road from his own home.
He would have been 19 in January. Loggins’ father, Ted,
purchased the single-engine plane about a month ago for his son. Nick
had been in the air nearly every day since. Pam Loggins said her husband
had taken Nick to Pryor Field Regional Airport to fly to Abernathy
Field in Pulaski, Tenn., to store his plane. Ted was en route to Pulaski
to pick up his son when Pam called with the tragic news.
Nick Loggins, a
first-year aviation student at Enterprise State Community College,
learned to fly at Redstone Arsenal and received a pilot’s license when
he was 16. Pam said her son was proud of his new plane. He washed it
almost every day. “He knew what he was doing. He was professional. He had hundreds of hours of flight time,” she said. Pam Loggins said Nick’s
career goal was to work on planes and be a pilot. Once he earned an
instructor’s license, he wanted to teach his father to fly. “He just loved the freedom of flying,” Pam said.
Nick Loggins also enjoyed
fishing and going to University of Alabama football games with his
grandfather, Frank Westmoreland. The two had gone to the game against
Chattanooga a week before the crash. Westmoreland said his grandson had
wanted to fly to Tuscaloosa, but he would not let him. “He could fix anything, drive anything and fly anything,” Westmoreland said.
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Parents: Ted and Pam Westmoreland Loggins
Sister: Christie Loggins Beasley; husband John Beasley IV
Grandparents:
Dr. Frank G. Westmoreland Jr. and the late Jackie Westmoreland
Ruby Loggins and Leon Loggins.
"It's just a tragic loss for our school and community, and our sympathy goes out to the Loggins family," said Garth Garris, principal at Elkmont High School. "He was very well-liked among his peers." Loggins' passing has prompted an outpouring of support for his family as friends and acquaintances recall him as "a fine, hard-working young man", " a good kid" and "a very caring guy who knew what to say to cheer you up."
It’s
just a tragic loss for our school and community, and our sympathy goes
out to the Loggins family,” said Garris, who taught Loggins during his
junior year. “He was very well-liked among his peers.”
Loggins’ passing has prompted an outpouring of support for his family as friends and acquaintances recall him as “a fine, hard-working young man,” “a good kid” and “a very caring guy who knew what to say to cheer you up,” according to Facebook posts.
In a Dec. 3 post on The News Courier’s Facebook page, Charlie Discher wrote that Loggins was friends with his daughters, Kaitlen and Dakota, along with Justin Salters, who regularly went fishing with Nick.
“Dakota and Justin are expecting a baby come April and I’m happy to say he will be named after Nick Hunter Loggins,” Discher said. - See more at: http://www.enewscourier.com/local/x439242006/Preliminary-report-expected-next-week-for-Elkmont-plane-crash#sthash.2wYG2JEg.dpuf
Loggins’ passing has prompted an outpouring of support for his family as friends and acquaintances recall him as “a fine, hard-working young man,” “a good kid” and “a very caring guy who knew what to say to cheer you up,” according to Facebook posts.
In a Dec. 3 post on The News Courier’s Facebook page, Charlie Discher wrote that Loggins was friends with his daughters, Kaitlen and Dakota, along with Justin Salters, who regularly went fishing with Nick.
“Dakota and Justin are expecting a baby come April and I’m happy to say he will be named after Nick Hunter Loggins,” Discher said. - See more at: http://www.enewscourier.com/local/x439242006/Preliminary-report-expected-next-week-for-Elkmont-plane-crash#sthash.2wYG2JEg.dpuf
It’s
just a tragic loss for our school and community, and our sympathy goes
out to the Loggins family,” said Garris, who taught Loggins during his
junior year. “He was very well-liked among his peers.”
Loggins’ passing has prompted an outpouring of support for his family as friends and acquaintances recall him as “a fine, hard-working young man,” “a good kid” and “a very caring guy who knew what to say to cheer you up,” according to Facebook posts.
In a Dec. 3 post on The News Courier’s Facebook page, Charlie Discher wrote that Loggins was friends with his daughters, Kaitlen and Dakota, along with Justin Salters, who regularly went fishing with Nick.
“Dakota and Justin are expecting a baby come April and I’m happy to say he will be named after Nick Hunter Loggins,” Discher said. - See more at: http://www.enewscourier.com/local/x439242006/Preliminary-report-expected-next-week-for-Elkmont-plane-crash#sthash.2wYG2JEg.dpuf
Loggins’ passing has prompted an outpouring of support for his family as friends and acquaintances recall him as “a fine, hard-working young man,” “a good kid” and “a very caring guy who knew what to say to cheer you up,” according to Facebook posts.
In a Dec. 3 post on The News Courier’s Facebook page, Charlie Discher wrote that Loggins was friends with his daughters, Kaitlen and Dakota, along with Justin Salters, who regularly went fishing with Nick.
“Dakota and Justin are expecting a baby come April and I’m happy to say he will be named after Nick Hunter Loggins,” Discher said. - See more at: http://www.enewscourier.com/local/x439242006/Preliminary-report-expected-next-week-for-Elkmont-plane-crash#sthash.2wYG2JEg.dpuf
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