“That’s highly unusual,” said Marks, who has represented families of victims in several high-profile crashes over a decades-long career. “Typically, what happens (is) within 12 to 24 hours, the NTSB shows up at a crash scene. The local responders are requested to secure the area.”

Authorities say a small plane has crashed in a rural area of Norte de Santander province in northeast Colombia, killing all 15 people on board.

Authorities say a small plane has crashed in a rural area of Norte de Santander province in northeast Colombia, killing 15 people including a congressman.

The plane, however, crashed during takeoff, leaving the jet burning and inverted on the tarmac, killing everyone on board. Among them a corporate pilot who was recently hired at the Texas law firm linked to the plane, and an event planner who had worked with the firm on previous occasions.

ICE’s post honored Deportation Officer Frank E. Chaffin, who died along with 31 others when a government‑chartered Douglas plane crashed in Los Gatos Canyon. But it also described the 28 Mexican passengers as “illegal Mexican aliens.”

The 67-year-old chief meteorologist and pilot who died in a plane crash in Idaho shared words about his love of flying just days before his death, per a local news outlet. Roland Steadham died following a small passenger plane crash on Tuesday,

The airport director deferred all questions on the status of the victims' remains to the medical examiner on scene and police.

Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church said a staff member who “possessed a beautiful spirit" was among the victims of a fatal private jet crash in Bangor, Maine.