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This photograph provided by Blue Origin shows Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket abstraction passengers from left, Glen de Vries, Audrey Powers, William Shatner, and Chris Boshuizen airs wrong the capsule connected Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. The Star Trek histrion and 3 chap passengers hurtled to an altitude of 66.5 miles (107 kilometers) implicit the West Texas godforsaken successful the afloat automated capsule, past safely parachuted backmost to Earth successful a formation that lasted conscionable implicit 10 minutes. (Blue Origin via AP)
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A antheral who traveled to abstraction with William Shatner past period was killed on with different idiosyncratic erstwhile the tiny level they were successful crashed successful a wooded country of bluish New Jersey, according to authorities police.
Glen M. de Vries, 49, of New York City, and Thomas P. Fischer, 54, of Hopatcong, were aboard the single-engine Cessna 172 that went down Thursday.
De Vries was an instrument-rated backstage pilot, and Fischer owned a formation school. Authorities person not said who was piloting the tiny plane.
The level had near Essex County Airport successful Caldwell, connected the borderline of the New York City area, and was headed to Sussex Airport, successful agrarian northwestern New Jersey, erstwhile the Federal Aviation Administration alerted nationalist information agencies to look for the missing level astir 3 p.m.
Emergency crews recovered the wreckage successful Hampton Township astir 4 p.m., the FAA said.
De Vries, co-founder of a tech company, traveled Oct. 13 aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft, spending much than 10 minutes successful abstraction aft launching on with Shatner and others aboard a vessel built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company.
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“It’s going to instrumentality maine a portion to beryllium capable to picture it. It was incredible,” de Vries said arsenic helium got his Blue Origin “astronaut wings” pinned onto his bluish formation suit by Bezos.
"We are devastated to perceive of the abrupt passing of Glen de Vries," Blue Origin tweeted Friday. “He brought truthful overmuch beingness and vigor to the full Blue Origin squad and to his chap crewmates. His passionateness for aviation, his charitable work, and his dedication to his trade volition agelong beryllium revered and admired.”
De Vries co-founded Medidata Solutions, a bundle institution specializing successful objective research, and was the vice seat of beingness sciences and wellness attraction astatine Dassault Systemes, which acquired Medidata successful 2019. He had taken portion successful an auction for a spot connected the archetypal formation and bought a spot connected the 2nd trip.
De Vries besides served connected the committee of Carnegie Mellon University.
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Fischer owned the formation schoolhouse Fischer Aviation and was its main instructor, according to the company's website.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
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