A year after he lost his wife and son in the nation’s worst aviation disaster in decades, Barrington resident Doug Lane is determined to make sure that the preventable tragedy isn’t repeated again.
Christine Conrad Lane, 49, and Spencer Lane, 16, were among the 67 people killed when American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Jan. 29, 2025. They’d traveled to Wichita, Kansas, so that Spencer could attend an elite U.S. Figure Skating training camp and were on their way home.
Overnight, Lane became a single father to his surviving son, Milo, who is now 13. The hardest part of the past year was “all the firsts,” he said – the first Thanksgiving and Christmas without Christine and Spencer, and the first birthdays and adoption anniversaries…