PHOTOS: Scene of plane crash that killed 7

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.
James McDowell, the pilot of the plane, from Georgetown, Delaware.
Michael de Vries, the co-pilot of the plane, from Marlon, New Jersey
Teresa Ann Benhoff, 48, a flight crew member from Easton, Maryland.
Action News has learned Marcella Dalsey, Executive Director of The Drew A. Katz Foundation, was a victim in the fatal Massachusetts plane crash.
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
Action News has learned that Susan Asbell, the wife of former Camden County Prosecutor Sam Asbell, was also on the plane.
Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz was killed along with six other people in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts. Photo courtesy of Kevin Johnson
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PHOTOS: Scene of plane crash that killed 7Pictured: The scene of a plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz and 6 other in Massachusetts.

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.

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