Air Traffic Control told the pilot, “Runaway is at your 10 o’clock and less than a mile. Radar contact lost.” When all communications stopped the plane fell from the sky about 1.5 miles short of the runway near suburban Rye Lake, New York.
Chafetz, the father of 7 was able to text his wife that he loved her and the kids before the plane crashed.
Westchester County Executive George Latimer had a press conference Friday. And explained that there was an “exhaustive search” of a densely wooded, 162-acre area. And that Taub and Chafetz’s bodies were located late Thursday night using the last pings from their cell phones.
The two men were prominent members of the Jewish Orthodox community.
Latimer said the process was expedited to release the bodies to their families, so they can be laid to rest before sundown, in observance of their faith.
The FAA investigation continues.
“My sense is, had he had a little more altitude and a little more time, he would have made it safely to the runway,” Latimer said. “We’re talking minutes if that much.”
