Comment: Before glorifying and thanking  " Alaska's cowboys "  for all they have done---never forget all the innocent victims they have taken to their deaths because of all they did wrong . Hundreds of senseless deaths because pilots foolishly flew in known bad weather , overloaded their airplanes ,  didn't fuel up their planes , and took shortcuts to save time and make a buck.  Over and over again innocent people die because of the pilots mistake . In the past week we have read about it in the Dispatch.  We will read about it again.  Every year it's the same story.  It's as though nothing is learned from each crash .  The " cowboy " mentality has cost far too many lives in Alaska.   After every crash we hear what a great person the pilot was---as if that makes the loss of innocent passengers ok.  Pilots need to do a far better job thinking about all those who will be left behind because they think of themselves as Alaska cowboys.