A heavy winter storm turned tragic Sunday night in Maine when a private business jet crashed while trying to take off from Bangor International Airport. Seven people lost their lives in the accident, and one crew member survived but was left with serious injuries.
The crash happened around 7:45 p.m. as heavy snow was falling across New England. The plane, a Bombardier Challenger 600, was carrying eight people in total when it went down. The airport, located about 200 miles north of Boston, had to shut down immediately following the incident.
This was part of a massive storm system that was causing travel headaches all over the country, but nowhere was the impact felt more severely than on the runway in Bangor.
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Records show the jet is registered to a company sharing an address with a well-known personal injury law firm in Houston, Texas, called Arnold and Itkin Trial Lawyers. One of the firm’s founding partners is listed as the agent for the company that owns the plane, linking the aircraft back to the Texas-based group.
Right now, federal investigators are trying to piece together exactly what went wrong.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the plane caught fire after crashing, but they are waiting for their team to arrive on the scene before releasing more details.
For now, there is little official word on who exactly was on board. The NTSB noted that releasing names is up to local officials.
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