A state senator from North Dakota, his wife and their two young children died when the small plane they were traveling in crashed in Utah, a Senate leader said Monday.
Doug Larsen’s death was confirmed Monday in an email that Republican Senate Majority Leader David Hogue sent to his fellow senators and was obtained by The Associated Press.
The plane crashed Sunday evening shortly after taking off from Canyonlands Airfield about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of Moab, according to a Grand County Sheriff’s Department statement posted on Facebook. The sheriff’s office said all four people on board the plane were killed.
Extra information from his Wikipedia page:
It says he was an Army veteran, was 46 or 47, and had 3 children. So it seems like his family was survived by one of his children.
Wow. Pretty much the only thing that could make a tragedy like this worse.
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Damn you for making me laugh, now I’m an asshole too!
I’ll make it worse—one of the parents was piloting the aircraft.
Just wait until the conspiracy nuts latch on, a la Paul Wellstone
The article mentions a step-child.