The pilot’s last minutes have been made public by an investigation into the deadly private aviation crash that killed six people.
Shortly after 12 p.m. Eastern Time on April 12, a family of physicians and student athletes, together with their spouses.
Perished when their plane struck a muddy field in Copake, near the Massachusetts border, in upstate New York.
Dr. Michael Groff, a neuroscientist, owned the private aircraft and was flying it at the time. His wife, Dr. Joy Saini, a urogynecologist, was also on board.
Along with her boyfriend James Santoro, another recent MIT graduate, their daughter, former MIT soccer player Karenna Groff, who was chosen the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year, had traveled with them.
They were joined by her brother Jared Groff, a paralegal who graduated from Swarthmore College in 2022, and his partner Alexia Couyutas Duarte.
Who also graduated from Swarthmore and was enrolled in Harvard Law School this September. Karenna’s 25th birthday, which fell on the Passover holiday, was the motivation for the flight.
