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Wayne Wilson, a retired Kentucky conservation officer and game warden, flew with Pitts across the Alaska Peninsula during a grizzly hunt this past May. “When you first meet him, it’s like you’ve known him your whole life,” Wilson said. Just minutes after posting condolences online for pilot Nicholas “Nick” Peters — who died days earlier in a fatal plane crash near Aniak and had flown Wilson on his very first Alaska hunt in 2024 — he received a message that Pitts had also been killed. “I got up out of the bed . and I just broke down and cried,” Wilson said. “It’s unimaginable. “What’s the odds of going in 2024 and a guy flying you into the bush, and coming back in ’26 and a different guy flies you into the bush, and you learn on the same day within minutes of each other that you’ve lost both pilots?
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