He added, “After retiring from Southwest Airlines, Jeff went on to be certified as a Captain in numerous private aircraft.” Hefner was “a highly accomplished and skilled Aviator, he flew 25 years with as a Captain with Southwest Airlines and had over 25,000 flight hours,” attorney Dan Newlin told CNN in a statement. Hefner’s previous employer, the head of a law firm where Hefner worked as a flight captain, said the pilot is survived by his wife and three children. Adina’s passion for her work and her genuine care for others touched the lives of many, making her an invaluable asset to our team at Keller Williams Points North,” the company’s New York City branch said. “Her vibrant personality and unwavering commitment to her clients set her apart in the real estate industry. “My family is gone, my daughter and granddaughter,” Barbara Rumpel wrote in response to a post on her Facebook profile in which others were asking if she was on the plane.Īdina Azarian’s employer, Keller Williams, remembered her in a statement as “a very devoted mother” and exceptional colleague.
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The FAA asked Rumpel if he knew how to contact the plane, the Post reports. John Rumpel told the Post that he received a call from the FAA about 90 minutes after dropping his daughter, granddaughter and their nanny at a Tennessee airport, where they were headed home to East Hampton, N.Y. The husband confirmed Barbara Rumpel is safe but declined to comment further. John Rumpel, whose wife Barbara is listed as the president of the company, told CNN Sunday night they own Encore. The private aircraft was registered to Encore Motors of Melbourne, Inc., a company based in Florida, according to FAA records. Rumpel also identified the pilot as Jeff Hefner, according to the report. John Rumpel, whose family company owned the wrecked aircraft, told the Washington Post that his daughter Adina Azarian, and 2-year-old granddaughter, Aria Azarian, were among the three passengers and pilot that died in the crash. Search and rescue teams assemble before going to the site of Sunday's plane crash near Montebello, Virginia. In addition to the F-16s, air traffic controllers and other civilian pilots frantically tried to contact the unresponsive crew of the jet by radio as it flew toward Washington, DC, at 34,000 feet, audio from revealed. The civilian aircraft flew from Elizabethton, Tennessee, past its destination – New York’s Long Island MacArthur Airport – and turned back before eventually crashing in Virginia on Sunday afternoon, according to NORAD and. The FAA lost contact with the jet just 15 minutes after it took off, according to a statement from the agency and data from air travel tracking website FlightAware.Īpproximately eight minutes after losing contact, the agency contacted the “Domestic Events Network” that consists of the military, national security, homeland security and other law enforcement agencies, according to the FAA statement.
“NORAD attempted to establish contact with the pilot until the aircraft crashed.” “The pilot was unresponsive and the Cessna subsequently crashed near the George Washington National Forest, Virginia,” the release said. When F-16s reached the Cessna 560 Citation V around 3:20 p.m., the jet pilots set off flares in an effort to get the pilot’s attention, a Sunday news release from the Continental US North American Aerospace Defense Command Region said. The flight was cruising from East Tennessee to Long Island, New York, at 34,000 feet, an altitude where pilots have 30 to 60 seconds to don oxygen masks when pressure drops or risk falling unconscious. Hypoxia is an insidious risk of flying at high altitude and could have been brought on by a decompression of the jet’s pressurized cabin, aviation experts say. No survivors found at Virginia plane crash site after US fighter jets attempted to intercept its unresponsive pilot, police say A General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet flies at Nellis AFB near Las Vegas, Nevada on March 2, 2023.
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