John Rumpel, a prominent Trump donor and the owner of the private jet that crashed in Virginia on Sunday, killing his daughter, Adina Azarian, and her 2-year-old daughter, also lost another daughter Victoria at age 19 in 1994.
The plane had departed from Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was bound for Islip, New York. The plane crashed in the sparsely populated town of Montebello, Virginia, around 3 p.m. The plane was registered to Encore Motors of Melbourne, which is a Florida-based company owned by John and Barbara Rumpel. None of them were on the plane.
Rumpel told The New York Times his daughter, 2-year-old granddaughter, her nanny, and the pilot were on the plane at the time of the crash. “We know nothing about the crash,” he told Washington Post. “We are talking to the FAA now.”
The pilot of the private jet had fallen unconscious. As a result of the aircraft entering restricted airspace unannounced, two DoD-authorized F-16s scrambled from the Pentagon to intercept the plane, causing a sonic boom across the D.C. area.
Who was Victoria Rumpel?
Victoria Rumpel was John Rumpel and Barbara Rumpel’s teenage daughter who was killed in 1994 in a scuba diving accident
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After her death, John and his wife bought an 11-story building in Melbourne, Florida, in her honor, named Victoria Landing and transformed it into an assisted-living facility
“John honors the memory of his daughter with the Victoria Landing name. With that honor comes the responsibility to make Victoria Landing the very best it can be…in commemoration of Victoria and in celebration of everything life can and should be,” according to its website of the property. “Life is simply too precious.”
