PURCHASE, N.Y. — Federal investigators have recovered a piece of the engine of a small plane that crashed and killed a member of the Rockefeller family in suburban New York.
Richard Rockefeller, the great-grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller, was killed in the crash on Friday.
The Piper Meridian single-engine turboprop plane went down shortly after takeoff from Westchester County Airport. It narrowly missed a house in Purchase, New York.
According to the Journal News (http://lohud.us/1qitmIA ), the plane has been taken to an undisclosed location and will be transferred to a storage facility in Delaware.
The National Transportation Safety Board told the Journal that a preliminary report was expected in seven to 10 days.
Rockefeller was heading home to Maine after visiting his father.
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- The wreckage of a small plane sits in the yard of a Purchase, N.Y., home after crashing shortly after take-off, Friday, June 13. The crash killed the plane’s pilot, Richard Rockefeller, the great grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller, a family spokesman said. There was no one else aboard the aircraft.
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