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UPDATE: All Victims Identified In Virginia Cessna Plane Crash


All four victims from the Cessna plane crash in Virginia on Sunday have been identified.

Pilot Jeff Hefner, who reportedly passed out during the flight, and nanny Evadnie Smith were the other two victims.

According to the New York Post, Smith was the live-in nanny for real estate agent Adina Azarian, 49, and her 2-year-old daughter, Aria Azarian.

As WLTReport noted, Adina and Aria Azarian were the daughter and granddaughter of Republican donors John and Barbara Rumpel.

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The New York Post reported:

Originally from Jamaica, Smith helped take care of little Aria at her mother’s East Hamptons home, according to the US Sun.

Friends of Azarian told the US Sun that she was affectionately called “Nanny V” and described her as a “remarkable woman with a beautiful soul” who shared a special bond with the single mom and her daughter.

Azarian’s parents, successful business people and Republican donors John and Barbara Rumpel, confirmed the deaths of their daughter and granddaughter Sunday night.

On Monday, John Rumpel identified the pilot of the doomed Cessna as Hefner in an interview with the Washington Post.

Hefner was survived by a wife and three kids, Florida attorney Dan Newlin told the newspaper.

Newlin said Hefner had flown for him and called him a “highly accomplished and skilled aviator.”

Childhood pals of Azarian said she decided to have a family on her own and struggled for years to conceive before she was blessed with her “miracle baby.”

“That’s the end of my family,” John Rumpel told The Washington Post.

“It’s just my wife and I now.”

KIRO 7 added:

Rumpel identified the pilot as Jeff Hefner. Aviation records show that Hefner had an airline pilot rating that qualified him to fly Boeing 737 jets and had a top-level medical certificate, the Post reported.

Rumpel had said on Sunday that the passengers were returning home to East Hampton, New York, after a four-day visit to his North Carolina home, The New York Times reported.



 

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