All six people onboard the plane died when it crashed near the Columbia County Airport on April 12
- The National Transportation Safety Board has released an initial report on the April plane crash that killed a family from Massachusetts
- The report states that the Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 plane, flown by Michael Groff, had stopped responding to air traffic controllers minutes before it crashed
- Six people were killed, including Groff, his wife Joy Saini, his daughter Karenna Groff and her boyfriend James Santoro, his son Jared and Jared’s girlfriend Alexia Couyutas Duarte
Investigators have released new details about the final moments of a plane crash in upstate New York that killed a family from Massachusetts .
According to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ) published on Friday, May 9, Michael Groff — the father and neurosurgeon who was at the controls of the family’s small plane before it crashed in the Catskill Mountains last month — had stopped communication with air traffic control just moments before the fatal incident.
In the report, officials said that Michael’s Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 plane left Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., on the morning of Saturday, April 12, at around 11:30 a.m. local time, and Michael headed north to Columbia County Airport in Hudson, N.Y…