HARTFORD, Connecticut, the plane crash that killed four people in a district of Connecticut was not the first accident for the pilot, a former Microsoft Executive who was taking her teenage son on a tour of universities in the coast this.
The pilot, Bill Henningsgaard, was killed along with his son, Maxwell, and two children who were in a House hit by the small airplane propeller-driven Friday. All their bodies were recovered from the scene of the accident.
East Haven Police on Saturday released the names of the victims of the accident, including Henningsgaard, 54, of Medina, Washington; her 17-year-old son; 13-year-old Sade Brantley and 1-year-old Madisyn Mitchell, who lived in East Haven House hit by the plane.
Researcher of National Transportation Safety Board Patrick Murray said on Saturday that the plane was upside down when it struck a House at an angle of 60 degrees. He said that the pilot was doing his first approach to the airport and not declared an emergency before the accident.
After removing the remains and before analyzing the data, he said at a news conference in New Haven, "we don't have any indication there was something wrong with the plane."
A preliminary report by the NTSB's accident is expected within 10 days. A more comprehensive report could take up to nine months.
On Saturday night, dozens of people were for a vigil in Margaret Tucker Park to honor those who died in the accident. Among the attendees was the woman who lost two sons when the plane hit their house.
Mayor Joseph Maturo told the crowd at the vigil that the demonstration of support was a great tribute.
"I think it is a great tribute to a great people," said the Mayor, "a dedicated people, a loving people. A town that comes to light when things don't work and the people need you."
Governor Dannel Malloy said in a statement that the Vigil was a "deep statement of the ties that bind together as a community East Haven and all of our State".
"When a family suffers an unimaginable tragedy, come together and pray that they have the strength they need to carry out," said Malloy. "Our thoughts and prayers are with all the families tonight who are suffering from pain and loss."
Henningsgaard, a well-respected philanthropist, was flying a small plane to Seattle in 2009 with its mother when it leaves the engine. He crashed in the Colombia River, Washington.
"Myself to face that fact that the situation of any pilots fears - an emergency in the air, it was then, what happens with my mother on the plane," he wrote in a blog, days later.
In the accident in Connecticut, Henningsgaard brought the 10-seater plane, a Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690B, for a landing at Tweed New Haven Airport in rainy weather before midday when the plane hit two small houses, engulfing them in flames. The aircraft left wing lodged in a House and its right wing on the other.
As mother of the children shouted asking for help from the lawn, several people in the working-class district rushed to rescue the children, but were forced to return fire.
A neighbor, David Esposito, was among those who rushed to help the mother of the children. He said he met with top House, where the woman believed they were his children, but found them after frantically looking for a crib and cabinets. He returned to search a little further down, but he dragged the woman when the flames became too strong.
The family of the pilot had learned was Bill Henningsgaard aircraft by tail number, said his brother, Blair Henninsgaard, in Astoria, Oregon City Attorney
In 2009, Bill Henningsgaard flying from Astoria, Oregon with her 84-year-old mother to see her daughter in a high school play when it collided with the River as he tried to slide to the airport. He and his mother, a former Mayor of Astoria, went to a wing and were rescued.
Henningsgaard was a member of based on Seattle Social Venture Partners, a foundation that helps build communities. The Foundation extended its condolences to his wife and two daughters.
"There are hundreds of people who have a story about Bill - when he went the extra mile, when he knew what to say, how they would never leave."It was truly All in for this community, heart, mind and soul, the Foundation wrote on Friday in a post on its website.
Paul Shoemaker's Social Venture Partners told The Seattle Times that Henningsgaard was "incredibly good, real, honest, for the community, for his family, for this world. ''
"" The guy has already done much for the world. ""And I was going to do a lot more, he said.
Henningsgaard spent 14 years at Microsoft in various positions in sales and marketing, according to his biography on the Web site Social Venture Partners. He was a member of the Board since a long time ago in Youth Eastside Services, an agency based in Bellevue, Washington, which provides counseling and substance abuse treatment, and led the fundraising campaign of $10.7 million from the Organization for its new headquarters, which opened its doors in 2008.
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Writers associated press Steven DuBois in Portland, Oregon, Gene Johnson in Seattle and John Christoffersen in East Haven, Connecticut, contributed to this report.
