On what would have been the 13th birthday of Andrew McMorris, the Boy Scout who was struck and killed by an alleged drunken driver while hiking with his troop last year, his family took to the skies.
Andrew, a Wading River, N.Y., seventh-grader when he died six months ago, was an aviation buff who spent many weekend mornings plane-spotting at area airports and dreamed of becoming a commercial airline pilot. He had planned to celebrate his entrance to teenage-hood by flying at the same Ronkonkoma flight school he had attended.
So on Saturday, March 30, the day he would have turned 13 years old, his parents and older sister took turns taking the reins of the same single-engine plane that Andrew had flown during flight camp.
