The Cessna Citation pilot was 'slumped over' controls when F-16 pilots intercepted the plane about 30 minutes before it crashed in Virginia, officials said.
the plane’s owner, John Rumpel, told The New York Times and Newsday that his daughter, Adina Azarian, and 2-year-old granddaughter Aria, were aboard the flight.
Azarian, 49, was well-known in real estate circles both in New York City and Long Island, described by friends and relatives as a competitive entrepreneur who started her own brokerage and was raising her daughter as a single parent. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Adam Gerhardt said the wreckage is"highly fragmented." He said the plane is not required to have a flight recorder but that it may have other avionics equipment with data that they can examine.
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