A private plane crashed in New York State during the weekend carrying six members of a coherent family of distinguished doctors and students on a trip to Catskills to celebrate the birthday and Easter holiday.

Twin Mitsubishi MU-2B hostel Shortly after noon on Saturday in a muddy field in Copak, New York, near the Massachusetts line, killing everyone on board, according to the authorities and a family member spoke to the Associated Press.

Shortly before the collapse, the pilot broadcast air traffic control at the Columbia County airport to say that he had missed the initial approach and asked for a new approach plan, officials of the National Transportation Safety Council said in a briefing on Sunday. Officials said that during the preparation of new coordinates, air traffic controllers tried to transfer a low -height alert three times, with no response from the pilot or the call for distress.

Todd Inman, NTSB official, told NTSB, NTSB official told reporters that investigators had received a video of the last seconds of the flight, which appears to “show that the plane was sound and crashed with a high landing rate to the ground.”

Among the victims was Kareena Group, a former football player at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology called 2022 NCAA, the woman of the year; Her father, nerve scientist, Dr. Michael Group; Her mother, Dr. Joy Sene, a pathologist; Her brother, Jared Group, graduate of 2022 from the Swarmore College, who worked as a semi -rhyme base; Alexia Coiotas Duarti, partner Jared Group, who also graduated Swarhamor and plans to attend the Harvard Law Faculty of Harvard this fall; And the friend of Kareena Group, James Santoro, another graduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to a family statement on Sunday.

“They were a great family,” James’s father, John Santoro, told AP. “The world has lost many good people who would have done a lot of good for the world if they had the opportunity. We have all destroyed.”

Santoro said his son Kareena Group for the first time as a student studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gove, who grew up in Weston, Massachusetts, was an American football player studying biomedical engineering. Santoro, a mathematics pioneer from New Jersey, played the role of Lacros for the school.

During the Covid-19s, Karenna Groff participated in the founding of OpenPPE, which helped create a new design for masks for basic workers. In 2023, she won the NCAA Woman of the Year award for the previous year for her achievements inside and outside the field.

“Really, this confession is a testimony to the family of my women’s football and all the guidance, support and friendship they gave me over the years,” she said ininterviewat that time.

After graduation, Santoro and Groff moved to Manhattan, where GROFF joined the New York University Medical College and Santoro, worked as an investment assistant at Silver Point, a hedge box in Greenwich, Contecticut.

SAINI, born in India, was a prominent surgeon in the pelvis and founder of Boston Pelvis and wellness, according to the family statement. The statement said that she trained in the University of Pittsburg University, where she met Michael Group, who became a distinguished nerve surgeon and an experienced pilot.

On Saturday morning, they all went to the Witchester County Airport in White Blinz, a suburb of New York City, where they boarded the Michael Group’s private plane, according to John Santooro.

They were appointed to land at Columbia County Airport, but they crashed about 10 miles (16 km) to the south. Enman said the plane “is compressed, full and embedded in the terrain” from a muddy agricultural field.

He said that the pilot was flying under the rules of the instrument, instead of the visual aviation rules, but it was too early to determine whether the decrease in the visibility of the weather conditions was a worker.

The plane was sold a year ago and had a cockpit of the cockpit with a newer technology that was adopted for federal aviation management standards, according to NTSB.

Inman said that investigators expect to be at the site of the crash for about a week, and the full incident report may take between 12 and 24 months to complete it.

Santoro said the funeral arrangements were ongoing.

He added: “The 25 years of which we went through with James was the best years of our lives, the joy and love that he brought to us would be sufficient for the continuation of life.”

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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2025-04-14 09:10:00