{"id":23500,"date":"2025-05-12T16:45:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/?p=823379"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:45:39","slug":"report-describes-final-moments-of-plane-crash-that-killed-massachusetts-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/report-describes-final-moments-of-plane-crash-that-killed-massachusetts-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Describes Final Moments of Plane Crash That Killed Massachusetts Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/img\/social\/opengraph\/ij-social-default-1200x630.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<ul class=\"nav nav-tabs tabs tabs-entry\">\n<li class=\"active\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/east\/2025\/05\/12\/823379.htm\">Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/east\/2025\/05\/12\/823379.htm?comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">0 Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"article-content clearfix\">\n<p>Federal investigators are outlining the final moments of a plane crash last month in upstate New York that killed a family from Massachusetts heading to the Catskills to celebrate a birthday and the Passover holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The victims of the April 12 crash in Copake, New York, included Karenna Groff, a former MIT soccer player named the 2022 NCAA woman of the year; her physician parents, Dr. Michael Groff and Dr. Joy Saini; her brother, Jared Groff, and his partner, Alexia Couyutas Duarte; and Karenna Groff\u2019s boyfriend, James Santoro.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bzn bzn-sized bzn-intext\">\n<ins data-revive-zoneid=\"79\" data-revive-block=\"1\" data-revive-id=\"36eb7c2bd3daa932a43cc2a8ffbed3a9\"><\/ins> <\/div>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board, in a preliminary report issued Friday, said the private plane departed Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, at around 11:30 a.m. heading north to Columbia County Airport in Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>Piloted by Michael Groff, the plane had left the Boston suburbs early Saturday morning, picking up Karenna Groff and Santoro in White Plains before making the short trip to the Catskills to celebrate Karenna Goff\u2019s 25th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>But at about 11:57 a.m., Michael Groff informed air traffic control that he\u2019d missed the initial approach to the runway at Columbia County Airport, according to the report. The controller then gave him new instructions for the landing, which Groff acknowledged a little after 12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>About a minute later, though, the controller warned Groff the plane was flying at a low altitude, the report states. The pilot never responded, and, despite multiple warnings, air traffic control received no further radio transmissions from the plane until radar contact was eventually lost.<\/p>\n<p>The Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 crashed in snow covered terrain roughly 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators didn\u2019t provide an exact cause of the crash in the preliminary report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bzn bzn-sized bzn-intext-2\">\n<ins data-revive-zoneid=\"162\" data-revive-block=\"1\" data-revive-id=\"36eb7c2bd3daa932a43cc2a8ffbed3a9\"><\/ins> <\/div>\n<p>But they noted that all major components of the aircraft found within a 150-foot debris field and that no significant weather advisories were in effect in the region at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>NTSB officials have previously said overcast conditions may have impacted the pilot\u2019s visibility and that an initial investigation had not turned up any issues with the aircraft.<\/p>\n<div class=\"copyright-notice lite\">Copyright 2025 Associated Press. 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