Young pilot Melanie Georger, 26, dies in plane crash moments after releasing skydivers - as one reveals her final heartwarming message to them

A young aviator has died successful a level clang conscionable moments aft releasing skydivers and sending them disconnected pinch a heartwarming message.

Melanie Georger, 26, checked successful pinch rider Jeffrey Walker earlier he took his first jump complete Niagara Falls connected Saturday. 

Walker said her kindness boosted his confidence, and he felt reassured to return nan plunge pinch her gentle encouragement. 

'I ne'er moreover sewage nervous, I ne'er moreover sewage tense astatine nan door,' he told WIVB-TV.

But erstwhile Georger was trying to onshore nan level conscionable half an hr aft Walker took his plunge, she collapsed on Niagara Scenic Parkway successful Youngstown, New York, nan Niagara County Sheriff's Office has revealed.

She was nan only personification onboard nan single-engine Cessna astatine nan time, and was killed successful nan crash.

Walker said he was not concerned by Georger's youth, describing her to WKBW arsenic 'super nice' arsenic they flew complete Niagara Falls successful 'great weather, debased winds.'

'This is conscionable benignant of a fluke accident,' Walker claimed. 'Something went incorrect - either she had a aesculapian emergency aliases thing happened to nan plane.' 

He said he now feels blessed to beryllium alive.

'For immoderate reason, God near maine connected Earth, and I'm blessed to beryllium still around,' he told nan section news position arsenic he continued to mobility why he was spared.

'Why didn't it hap erstwhile I was up there? Why didn't it hap erstwhile we were each connected nan plane?' he asked, describing nan business arsenic 'surreal.'

The Niagara County Sheriff's Office said it started receiving calls astatine astir 11:40am connected Saturday from drivers who could not spot nan wreckage astir a brushwood occurrence connected nan broadside of nan highway, the Buffalo News reports.

Deputies and different officers who responded to nan segment past recovered nan debris of nan single-engine Cessna 208B down a slope.

Authorities announced astatine nan clip that nan aviator had been killed successful nan crash, and Georger's begetter collapsed nan news that nan unfortunate was his girl later that day.

'Friends and family, my life arsenic I cognize it ended today,' he wrote connected Facebook. 

'My beloved daughter, my champion friend and 1 of nan 2 lights of my life passed distant abruptly today.

'Melanie was a pilot, on  nan cusp of realizing her dream to alert for nan airlines. She was doing what she loved, flying for a section skydiving company, erstwhile her level crashed.

'To my tweety pie, my girlie, my beloved and my heart, I'm already looking guardant to nan time that we reunite, and I will person a immense spread successful my bosom and a never-ending ache until then.' 

He added connected Sunday: 'Back successful nan first week of October 2022, my semipermanent narration disintegrated, I contracted COVID and I learned that my dog, who I raised from a puppy, had crab and didn't person agelong to live.

'I utilized to opportunity that was nan worst week of my life, utilized to.

'This is exponentially worse and it will past a h*** of a batch longer than a week.'

Georger's friend, Angela Borczuch, besides expressed her condolences connected societal media, noting they met playing section lucky and 'quickly became friends.

'Mel ever made maine laugh. During autobus rides to distant games, I ever made judge to beryllium adjacent to her because she could brighten immoderate time pinch her humor,' she wrote.

'From nan time I met her, Mel made it known it was her dream to go a pilot. She achieved her extremity and took to nan skies.

'Rest successful peace, Mel. Your laughter and ray will beryllium missed.' 

Walker, nan skydiver, besides said he gave Georger 'props for wanting to do what she was doing.'

'I really consciousness bad for nan business and nan institution she was moving for, because they're a awesome company,' he added. 'I thought they did a awesome occupation training.'

The National Transportation Safety Board is now investigating nan origin of nan crash.