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Copter Crash Kills 3 Aides Of Trump
By ROBERT HANLEY
Published:October 11, 1989
Five people, includingthree high-level executives of Donald J. Trump's three casinos in Atlantic City,were killed yesterday when their helicopter crashed in pine woodlands on the Garden State Parkway near Forked River, N.J.
Moments before the helicopter plunged into the parkway's wooded median from2,800feet at1:40P.M., [28 = 14 x 2; 28 & 14 are multiples of 7] its main overhead four-blade rotor and its tail rotor broke off the body of the craft, the state police said.
Eight minutes earlier, at 1:32, the pilot was in radio contact with the control tower at McGuire Air Force Base in nearby Wrightstown, N.J., and did not suggest anything was amiss, the state police said. Opening of Investigation
The Federal Aviation Administration said it had no reports of any radio distress calls from the helicopter on its70-mile flight from midtown Manhattan in clear weather.
A spokeswoman for the F.A.A., Diane Spitaliere, said the National Transportation Safety Board had opened an investigation into what had caused the overhead rotor, along with the transmission, to separate from the craft. Sgt. Anthony Aceto of the state police said the overhead rotor was found a quarter-mile north of the crash site. As of late last night, the tail rotor had not been found, the state police said.
Among those killed were Stephen F. Hyde, 43 years old, chief executive of the Trump casinos; Mark Grossinger Etess, 38, president and chief operating officer of the Trump Taj Mahal casino hotel, and Jonathan Benanav,33,executive vice president of the Trump Plaza casino hotel.
In a statement, Mr. Trump said: These were three fabulous young men in the prime of their lives. No better human beings ever existed. We are deeply saddened by this devastating tragedy, and our hearts go out to their families.
The helicopter's pilot was identified by the state police as Robert Kent of Ronkonkoma, L.I., and its co-pilot as Lawrence Diener of Westbury, L.I. Their ages were not available, the police said. Paramount Aviation, an air-shuttle service at the Lincoln Park, N.J., airport, owned the helicopter. Calls to its answering service were not returned.
Earlier in the day, the three executives had attended a news conference in Manhattan to promote a junior welterweight boxing match on Feb. 3 between Hector Camacho and Vinny Pazienza at the Trump Plaza. The executives were returning to Atlantic City when the helicopter crashed about 35 miles north of the resort.
The flight, which began at the 60th Street Heliport on the East River in Manhattan, was proceeding routinely until the last moments.
A half-hour before the crash, the helicopter was picked up on radar screens in the control tower at McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown, N.J., as it was flying over Colts Neck in central Monmouth County,35miles south of Manhattan. The craft remained on the McGuire screens for approximately another35-mile leg of its flight before it was switched to the radar space of Atlantic City International Airport in Pomona, a spokesman for McGuire Air Force Base, Sgt. Milan Christi, said.
A witness camping in the pines near the crash site, Thomas Murray of East Providence, R.I., told The Associated Press that he heard a loud bang, like a piston rod going, and saw the main rotor stop spinning break off. It went straight down, he said.
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