The pilot of a private plane that flew over the nation’s capital amid a military jet-caused sonic boom was a retired Southwest Airlines captain with more than...
that the veteran pilot was highly safety-conscious, even employing standard practices from his commercial days with Southwest in his private flights. Those practices are much more thorough than what’s required when flying smaller aircraft.
“We’re deeply saddened by Sunday’s tragic event and our heart is with the many affected,” the statement said. The plane was carrying Adina Azarian, who sold real estate in New York and Long Island, and her two-year-old daughter, Aria, according to a statement from Keller Williams NYC, a franchise of Keller Williams Realty Inc. Also aboard was an unidentified nanny. John Rumpel, whose Florida-based Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc. owns the plane, had adopted Azarian, he told theThe plane was destroyed in the crash, making accident reconstruction more tedious for the National Transportation Safety Board.
In the 1999 fatal crash that killed golfer Payne Stewart, three other passengers and two pilots, NTSB concluded their Learjet 35 lost pressure as they climbed, a similar scenario to Sunday’s crash. After taking off from Orlando on a flight to Dallas, the pilots lost consciousness and the plane flew more than 1,000 miles to Aberdeen, South Dakota, before running out of fuel.
The jet that crashed Sunday apparently had a crash-proof cockpit sound recorder installed on it, though it hasn’t been found yet, the NTSB said Wednesday.
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