American skateboarder Josh Neuman and three other people were killed when a sightseeing plane crashed into a lake in Iceland on Thursday, authorities in the North Atlantic island nation said Monday.

Who was Josh Neuman?

Josh Neuman was a 22-year-old skateboarder who used to regularly upload skateboarding videos on his YouTube channel, which has almost 1.2 million subscribers.

He began making videos at the age of 12 with his father’s video camera. He then decided to drop out of college to pursue a career in extreme sports and filmmaking.

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In 2020, he published a sponsored video for a lifestyle streetwear brand Suspicious Antwerp in which he was seen skating on a longboard down a winding road in Los Angeles.

On Thursday, he was on the Cessna 172 plane to create commercial content for the brand along with the company’s sponsorship manager Tim Alings and Belgian social media influencer Nicola Bellavia when the aircraft disappeared from radar.

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Over 1,000 members of Iceland’s Search and Rescue organisation helped search for the aircraft, which was found on Saturday in a portion of the lake about 30 miles east of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik. Police said the bodies of the four men were discovered on Sunday in Lake Thingvallavatn.

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Suspicious Antwerp spokesman Bram Boriau told the Associated Press that the purpose of the flight was to capture footage of Iceland’s stunning scenery.

“All persons present were hugely passionate about travel and content creation, hence these themes were the main focus of the trip,” he told the AP by email.

Inputs from The Associated Press