We're bad luck for planes

This makes three crashes or forced landings we have overheard while underway in the past three years. Of the other two, one was off Anacortes and the other near Shilshole. We were about ten miles away from this one, which is about two hours for us under power, so like the others, we just listened. It wasn't clear at first from the Group Seattle pan-pan that it was a float plane; when the first yacht on-scene called in (and they got to them within about fifteen minutes, pretty quick) and said the pilot was looking for a tow, we figured it probably hadn't been too bad.