A Memphis defense attorney, Steve Farese, told WMC that that two of the people on board are his nephew, Dr. Jason Farese, and his wife, Lea.
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The six were coming back from a conference in Florida when the plane went down on Sunday Morning.
The bodies of the six victims were removed from the crash site and taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery for autopsies.
The National Transportation Safety Board will be conducting an investigation. They owned and operated Farese Family Dental in Oxford.
The deaths of the three Oxford couples resonated across the state, as they were connected in several places.
Representatives from the companies that made the plane’s engine and frame will arrive on Tuesday to assist the investigator. “She wanted me to be comfortable”, said Natascha Burner, a patient of Dr. Farese. “Our responders were able to get there in a quick manner”, said Sheriff Ron Abernathy of the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. According to the Chicago Tribune, Mayor Herndon said, “They did everything they could”.
The plane crashed at midday Sunday a few miles north of Tuscaloosa, Ala., authorities said. His plane dropped out of the sky 50 seconds into the flight.
“He said, ‘God, a plane just crashed, ‘” Hernandez said through a translator.
It’s unclear if this was the event the couples attended.
The Perry couple were the parents of three children. Kim Perry was certified as a women’s and family nurse practitioner and had worked for the university’s student health center since 2007.
“I remember Jason when he was a redheaded, freckled kid, and he would run around and play while the adults were playing family tennis”, said Clarksdale mayor Bill Luckett.
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Six people died when the small aircraft crashed in a wooded, swampy park just east of the airport. Deborah and I pray for the loved and lost, their families and friends. Luckett also was related to Jason Farese by a previous marriage.
