Don't know about Texas, but some hedge fund executive was killed in a plane crash on New Year's.
https://nypost.com/
2018/01/02/father-in-costa-rica-plane-crash-worked-at-giant-hedge-fund/
>The father of the family killed in a fiery Costa Rican plane crash was a senior investor at Bridgewater Associates, the giant hedge fund headed by billionaire Ray Dalio.
>Bruce Steinberg — who, along with his wife, Irene, and three sons, Zachary, William and Matthew, was among 12 people killed in the charter plane crash on New Year’s Eve — was a senior member of the Connecticut-based fund’s research team