Pilot Jason Winters, 43, was a longtime commercial pilot who was married and had three children. He was interested in aviation from childhood, and began working for Chelan Seaplanes one of the companies named in the lawsuit filed by his wife as a high school student.The lawsuit filed by pilot Jason Winters wife, for example, alleges the pilot suffered extreme, severe, relentless fear for the life and physical well-being of himself and his passengers as the plane crashed. The suits also recount the anguish of the families as they waited through the search for