Share this Story: 6 died in small plane crash in Texas: Officials 6 died in small plane crash in Texas: Officials Photo by William Luther / AP Article content KERRVILLE, Texas — A man regularly volunteered to fly sick people in remote parts of the country to hospitals in Houston and Dallas was at the controls of a twin-engine airplane that crashed Monday in the Hill Country of central Texas, killing all six aboard. Jeffrey C. Weiss, 65, was a senior vice-president for investments at Raymond James and Associates in Houston. The Texas Department of Public Safety said Weiss, who co-owned the Beechcraft BE58, was at the controls when the aircraft went down just before 9 a.m. Monday while approaching Kerrville Municipal Airport, about 70 miles (110 kilometres) northwest of San Antonio. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or 6 died in small plane crash in Texas: Officials Back to video Also killed were Stuart Roben Kensinger, 55; Angela Webb Kensinger, 54; Mark Damien Scioneaux, 58; Scott Reagan Miller, 55; and Marc Tellepsen, 45, all of Houston, said DPS Sgt. Orlando Moreno. The aircraft went down just before 9 a.m. as it approached an airport in Kerrville, a city about 70 miles (110 kilometres) northwest of San Antonio, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford. State law enforcement officials secured the crash site ahead of FAA and National Transportation Safety Board investigators’ arrival Monday. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Photo by Bob Owen / AP The aircraft had taken from an airport outside Houston earlier Monday and crashed about 6 miles (10 kilometres) northwest of Kerrville Municipal Airport, Lunsford said. The flight was not a scheduled commercial route, he said. The downed plane was manufactured by Raytheon Aircraft in 1999 and was co-owned by Weiss and Charles Morina of Dallas, according to FAA records. Article content Weiss loved to fly and the pair volunteered their time transporting sick people from remote regions to Texas hospitals for Angel Flight, Morina said. “We flew people from all over the country to Dallas and Houston” for medical treatment, he told The Associated Press. The cause of the crash hasn’t been determined. However, witnesses heard the plane struggling and sputtering moments before it crashed. “It was making a sput-sput sputtering sound, like the engines were cutting out,” Treva Hardeman, who was working at home about a quarter mile from where the aircraft crashed, told the San Antonio Express-News . “It was just a few seconds later that I heard the boom.” Construction worker Rodney Simmons said he heard a plane “struggle against the wind.” “I looked over and watched him drop down out of the clouds,” Simmons told the Express-News. “The rear end of the plane was real low, like he was trying to stay in the air. It was like he was dragging the tail end of that plane. Like he had a lot of weight in the back or something.” The plane flew southward into the wind, Simmons said, then “banked to the right, real hard, and just flipped on over, upside down, and nose-dived to the ground.” Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content The family of one of the six people killed in the crash of a twin-engine aircraft in the Texas Hill Country said the purpose of the flight was to survey some property. In a statement to KTRK-TV of Houston, the family of Houston landscape architect Marc Teppesen said he and associate Mark Scioneaux were on the scouting trip when Houston architect Scott Reagan Miller, Houston real estate investor Stuart Kensinger and his wife Angela Kensinger, and Houston investment banker Jeffrey Weiss died in the Monday plane crash. Weiss was a philanthropist who not only flew the sick to hospitals but was active in charities supporting children with special needs or who suffered abuse, said friend Bob Fuller. He told KPRC-TV of Houston that Weiss helped him conduct his Keels and Wheels charity event in Seabrook each year to aid abused children, giving both his time and money. “I loved the man, I’ll tell you that. He was generous to a fault. He wanted to support our charity any way he can and one of those was if I wanted to fly to Detroit to talk to General Motors, ‘Call me first,”‘ Fuller said. Share this article in your social network Latest National Stories Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Trending<doc-sep>Send this page to someone via email A man who was part-owner of a plane that crashed Monday in Texas, killing all six people aboard, said he and his friend who owned the plane regularly volunteered to fly sick people in remote parts of the country to hospitals in Houston and Dallas. Officials have not yet released the identities of the six aboard the aircraft when it crashed into the rocky hills of a central Texas ranch, according to authorities, while preparing to land. Charles Morina of Dallas told The Associated Press that he did not know if his partner was among those aboard, nor did he know what caused the crash. WATCH: Plane crash on private ranch in Texas kills 6 0:25 Plane crash on private ranch in Texas kills 6 Plane crash on private ranch in Texas kills 6 – Apr 22, 2019 The twin-engine aircraft went down just before 9 a.m. as it approached an airport in Kerrville, a city about 70 miles (110 kilometres) northwest of San Antonio, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford. Story continues below advertisement The pilot and the five other people aboard the plane were all killed, said Sgt. Orlando Moreno, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety. State law enforcement officials secured the crash site ahead of FAA and National Transportation Safety Board investigators’ arrival Monday. The Beechcraft BE58 took off from an airport outside Houston earlier Monday and crashed about 6 miles (10 kilometres) northwest of Kerrville Municipal Airport, Lunsford said. The flight was not a scheduled commercial route, he said. The downed plane was a manufactured by Raytheon Aircraft in 1999 and was co-owned by two people, according to FAA records. The cause of the crash hasn’t been determined. There was a low layer of broken clouds but no rain in the area around the airport at the time of the crash, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Cory Van Pelt.<doc-sep>Official updates on Texas plane crash that killed 6 Correction: An earlier version of this article included a photo from a different Texas plane crash. The photo has been replaced. (CNN) — Six people are dead after a twin-engine plane crashed in Texas on Monday morning. The incident occurred before 9 a.m. near Kerrville Municipal Airport, according to Lt. Jason Reyes with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). The victims include the plane’s pilot, 65-year-old Jeffery Carl Weiss, as well as Stuart Roben Kensinger, 55, Angela Webb Kensinger, 54, Mark Damien Scioneaux, 58, Scott Reagan Miller, 55, and Marc Tellepsen, 45, all from Houston, Texas Department of Public Safety Sergeant Orlando Gus Moreno told CNN. A Beechcraft BE58 was getting ready to land at Kerrville Municipal Airport when the accident took place, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Kerrville is about 65 miles northwest of San Antonio. Wreckage was found about six miles northwest of the airport. The flight had departed from West Houston Airport outside Houston, the FAA said. The FAA said its investigators are headed to the site and the National Transportation Safety Board will be in charge of the probe. DPS officials have secured the scene, Lt. Reyes said.<doc-sep>The great-granddaughter of a former New York mayor was among the six killed in a small plane crash Monday in the rocky hills of a ranch northwest of San Antonio, Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety released the names of the six victims from a twin engine Beechcraft BE58 that went down before 9 a.m. CST as it prepared to land at an airport in Kerrville, Texas. Everyone on board died. It's believed that the group, which included architects, a planner and investors, took the six-seat plane to survey property. Among the deceased is Angela Webb Kensinger, 54, of Houston, the great-granddaughter of former New York City mayor William Jay Gaynor, the New York Daily News reported. Kensinger's husband, Stuart Roben Kensinger, 55, also died in the crash. Gaynor, a Democrat who was part of the Tammany Hall political machine but later split, served as New York mayor from 1910 to 1913. Gaynor survived a gunshot wound after being shot early in his term by a recently fired city employee. But he died three years later from a heart attack in 1913 before his reelection. Angela Webb Kensinger was the longtime varsity girls' lacrosse head coach at the St. John's School, a Houston private school, the Houston ABC television affiliate reported. Stuart Kensinger, a Houston real estate investor, was the founding director of Jerusalem Peacebuilders, an interfaith non-profit organization with the stated mission of "creating a better future for humanity across religions, cultures, and nationalities." Other victims, according to the state department of public safety, were: • Jeffrey Carl Weiss, 65, of Houston, who was the pilot and owned the plane. Weiss was a senior vice president for investments at Raymond James and Associates in Houston • Marc Tellepsen, 45, of Houston, who owned a landscape architecture firm in Houston • Mark Damien Scioneaux, 58, of Houston, who worked in architecture and planning for Tellepsen's firm, according to his LinkedIn page. • Scott Reagan Miller, 55, of Houston, an architect KTRK television quoted a statement from the Tellepsen family who said they believe an architectural client chartered the plane and were taking Tellepsen and Scioneaux on a short trip to survey property when the aircraft crashed. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are leading the investigation and any further information must be gathered from them.<doc-sep>
The Associated Press DALLAS -- A man regularly volunteered to fly sick people in remote parts of the country to hospitals in Houston and Dallas was at the controls of a twin-engine airplane that crashed Monday in the Hill Country of Central Texas, killing all six aboard. Jeffrey C. Weiss, 65, was a senior vice-president for investments at Raymond James and Associates in Houston. The Texas Department of Public Safety said Weiss, who co-owned the Beechcraft BE58, was at the controls when the aircraft went down just before 9 a.m. Monday while approaching Kerrville Municipal Airport, about 70 miles (110 kilometres) northwest of San Antonio. Also killed were Stuart Roben Kensinger, 55; Angela Webb Kensinger, 54; Mark Damien Scioneaux, 58; Scott Reagan Miller, 55; and Marc Tellepsen, 45, all of Houston, said DPS Sgt. Orlando Moreno. The aircraft went down just before 9 a.m. as it approached an airport in Kerrville, a city about 70 miles (110 kilometres) northwest of San Antonio, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford. State law enforcement officials secured the crash site ahead of FAA and National Transportation Safety Board investigators' arrival Monday. The aircraft had taken from an airport outside Houston earlier Monday and crashed about 6 miles (10 kilometres) northwest of Kerrville Municipal Airport, Lunsford said. The flight was not a scheduled commercial route, he said. The downed plane was manufactured by Raytheon Aircraft in 1999 and was co-owned by Weiss and Charles Morina of Dallas, according to FAA records. Weiss loved to fly and the pair volunteered their time transporting sick people from remote regions to Texas hospitals for Angel Flight, Morina said. "We flew people from all over the country to Dallas and Houston" for medical treatment, he told The Associated Press. The cause of the crash hasn't been determined. There was a low layer of broken clouds but no rain in the area around the airport at the time of the crash, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Cory Van Pelt. Weiss was a philanthropist who not only flew the sick to hospitals but was active in charities supporting children with special needs or who suffered abuse, said friend Bob Fuller. He told KPRC-TV of Houston that Weiss helped him conduct his Keels and Wheels charity event in Seabrook each year to aid abused children, giving both his time and money. "I loved the man, I'll tell you that. He was generous to a fault. He wanted to support our charity any way he can and one of those was if I wanted to fly to Detroit to talk to General Motors, 'Call me first,"' Fuller said.