That is the only word that fits this situation.

No one was believed to have survived the crash of a small plane that was carrying a six-member organ transplant team and their cargo of donor organs, authorities said Tuesday.

Searchers found human remains during a search in Lake Michigan, about six miles northeast of Milwaukee, a Coast Guard official said Tuesday.

The team's lifesaving mission _ carrying unspecified organs from Milwaukee for transplant to a patient in Michigan _ was cut short Monday when the Cessna Citation went down in 57-degree water shortly after the pilot signaled an emergency.

Those on board were two surgeons and two donor specialists from the University of Michigan Health System and two pilots who regularly fly their transplant missions.

The loss of the transplant organs is awful, but the loss of the team involved in getting them where they are needed is even worse. Prayers must go out for those killed, and their families, the organ donor(s) and loved ones, and the intended recipient(s). So many touched by one incident. -- and so many folks involved in heroic service snuffed out in an instant.

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