PHILADELPHIA -- An airport employee watched as the Gulfstream jet raced past the end of a runway, plunged down an embankment and erupted in flames.
The witness account of the Saturday night crash that killed all seven people aboard, including Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz, provided some of the first clues as investigators began piecing together what went wrong during the attempted takeoff from a runway surrounded by woods outside Boston.
Action News has learned Marcella Dalsey, Executive Director of The Drew A. Katz Foundation, was a victim in the fatal Massachusetts plane crash. (Drewakatzfoundation.org/)
James P. Leeds Sr., town commissioner of Longport, New Jersey, said his 74-year-old wife, Anne, was also killed. He received a text from Anne just four minutes before the crash say (Leeds Family)
Action News has learned that Susan Asbell, the wife of former Camden County Prosecutor Sam Asbell, was also on the plane. (Camden County Bar Association)