Missing man

Hush - The silence lingers still
White clouds brush the distant hill
The Snowbirds flown on silent wings
Far from earth bound, tugging strings.

Hush - There lies but one man sleeping
A date with his Maker he is keeping
Though once he raced across the sky, in flight
Radiant, as a star at night.

Hush - He was an airman bold
Who saw the sunset turning gold
Who soared with grace across this land
A brave man, in a brave man's band.

No more in danger shall he tread
No more the sunsets turning red
Though high above our prairie fleece
We know his soul will find its peace.

Hush - The Snowbird's taken flight
Into the great beyond of night
To join his comrades, in the wing
Which flies just for our Heavenly King.

- Peter Walt

We mourn the dead of 431 Air Demonstration Squadron - The Snowbirds:

Captain Lloyd Waterer
#8, Lead Solo
Killed during an airshow in 1972, in Trenton, Ontario, at the age of 24.

Captain Gordon de Jong
#8, Lead Solo
Killed during an airshow in 1978, in Grande Prairie, Alberta, at the age of 32.

Captain Wes Mackay
#8, Lead Solo
Killed in a motor accident in 1988, after a performance in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, at the age 28.

Captain Shane Antaya
#2, Inner Right Wing
Killed during an airshow in 1989, at the CNE in Toronto, Ontario, at the age of 26.

Captain Michael VandenBos
#2, Inner Right Wing
Killed during a training mission in December 1998, just south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, at the age of 29.

Captain Miles Selby
#8, Opposing Solo
Killed during a training mission in December 2004, in Mossbank, Saskatchewan, at the age of 31.

...and now one more.

Update: He was...

Captain Shawn McCaughey
#2, Inner Right Wing
Killed practicing prior to an airshow, near Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, at the age of 31.