Shaky takeoff

Outfitter Brian Oakland was taking a hunting party to Alaska. The group was sitting on a small plane outfitted with pontoons for a water takeoff. Let's hear the rest. The weather was not great and the plane was loaded to the gills. I had heard the pilot talking a little bit about how he was a little uncomfortable with the weight of the plane, was a little uncomfortable about the weather. We actually sat on the shore for 3 hours waiting for the weather to clear, and it kept getting worse. About every half hour, the pilot would say. Maybe we should just go for it. And we'd say, Oh, we're in no rush, we're in no rush. So we'd wait a little bit longer and it would start raining harder. The visibility was getting less, and he'd say, Maybe we should go for it. By now. We've waited two or 3 hours and the weather has really set in and it's gotten even worse. And I hear him talking about the weight of the plane and not being super comfortable about it. I'm sitting in the front seat of this plane and he radios in that he's going to go for it. So I'm just praying in all honesty, I'm not going to tell this guy, don't do it. But I was definitely nervous. We begin to take off. You're basically heading toward a shore. We were still on the lake. The plane is wrapping out and it is not leaving the water and the trees are getting closer and closer. I'm starting to think to myself, there is no way he's going to pull this plane off the lake and cover those trees and it's going to happen at the wrong time when we start to leave this lake and just crash right into these trees. And that's it. Just as I was thinking, this is not going to end well, He pulled off a boarded the flight and. Speaker1: I collect a few from the hunting party.