Nine people have been confirmed dead after the plane they were flying in crashed into a home in Akron, Ohio, on Tuesday.
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Smoot’s sister, Jeannie Ferraia, said she excited to be with the company’s executives as they scouted potential sites for shopping centers in Ohio.
Those on board the plane included a pilot and co-pilot along with seven employees from Florida-based Pebb Enterprises, a real estate investment company.
A business jet crashed into a home in Akron, Ohio, on Tuesday, leaving no survivors.
A pilot who landed at Akron Fulton shortly before the crash was on the same radio frequency and never heard a distress call, Silliman said. The plane was about four miles from the Akron Fulton global Airport when it crashed into a four-plex apartment building.
Nine people died in a fiery business jet crash in OH, state officials confirmed on Wednesday, as an investigation into the reasons for the jet’s crash continued. A year later, the Weiners formed Pebb Enterprises with their son and son-in-law, and moved to Boca Raton, according to the death notice.
The Raytheon Hawker 125-700 10-passenger charter crashed about 2:40 p.m. Tuesday into a four unit-apartment building in the 3000 block of Mogadore Road.
The statement says the company is “shocked and deeply saddened for the families, colleagues and friends of those who perished”.
Previous reports said at least two people were killed. “I ran outside”, Scott Ferrell said.
Dr. Lisa Kohler with the Summit County Medical Examiner’s office says a forensic anthropology team of 22 from Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA has arrived in Akron to help.
It could take days to recover and identify the victims, Haymaker said.
Staff Lt. Bill Haymaker of the Cleveland District of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said in a news conference Wednesday that as many as 12 families in the apartment buildings near where the crash occurred had been displaced.
The private jet had been chartered by Pebb Enterprises (offices pictured here Wednesday) and flew from Florida to the Midwest on Monday. “That is the problem with the recovery at this point”, he said. It was founded in 1972 and is family owned and operated.
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Authorities have not given details on the number of those on the jet, except to say it’s presumed that none of them survived and that a pilot and co-pilot were among them.
