A little cross-border cooperation allowed a Seattle dad who’s been separated from his four-year-old son just across the border in White Rock, British Columbia, to come within 1,000 feet of his boy on Friday, much to the surprise of others in the Vancouver suburb. Air Force Reserves Lt. Col T.K. Minzak flew an Air Force C-17 over the waterfront of the Canadian community at 1,000 feet while his son Ethan Fritz waved and waved an “I Love You Daddy” sign up at him from the pier below. “He did a airshow for me. He tipped his wings at me,” Ethan told local radio station News 1130.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/cross-border-wing-wag-brings-family-together