Who said "A little of all of us goes with every pilot we lose"? The only attribution I’ve ever seen for the quotation below is “Anonymous FAA Inspector.”


  Whenever we talk about a pilot who has been killed in a flying accident, we should all keep one thing in mind. He called upon the sum of all his knowledge and made a judgment. He believed it so strongly that he knowingly bet his life on it. That his judgment was faulty was a tragedy, not stupidity. Every inspector, supervisor, and contemporary who ever spoke to him had an opportunity to influence his judgment, so a little of all of us goes with every pilot we lose.


Who originally said or wrote these words? What were the motivating circumstances?
William Garvey in &quot;Viewpoint&quot;
The authoritative reference is in this article:
Aftermath: Lessons Learned  (Aviation Week)
Excerpt:

The last words of William Garvey's January Viewpoint -- &quot;. . . so a
little of all of us goes with every pilot we lose.&quot; -- struck me
(&quot;Aftermath,&quot; page 7). I had just returned from the small town of
Vesoul, France, where I attended a ceremony marking the 40th
anniversary of the death of a Mirage III pilot. Lt. Patrick de
Barbeyrac Saint-Maurice died while flying an intercept training
mission near Vesoul on Nov. 3, 1966. The cause of the accident was
never fully determined, other than the ...
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