As an award-winning scientist, Peter Dodge had made hundreds of flights into the eyes of hurricanes — almost 400.
On Tuesday, a crew on a reconnaissance flight into Hurricane Milton helped him make one more, dropping his ashes into the storm as a lasting tribute to the longtime National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration radar specialist and researcher.'It's very touching,' Dodge's sister, Shelley Dodge, said in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press. 'We knew it was a goal of NOAA to make it happen.
He also was part of the crew aboard a reconnaissance flight into Hurricane Hugo in 1989 that experienced severe turbulence and saw one of its four engines catch fire.'They almost didn't get out of the eye,' Shelley Dodge said.Items inside the plane were torn loose and tossed about the cabin. After dumping excess fuel and some heavy instruments to enable the flight to climb further, an inspection found no major damage to the plane and it continued on.
Scientist Logged Final Flight As NOAA Released His Ashes Into Milton's Eye
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