Plane Crashes Onto Busy N.j. Highway

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I 287 near harding, NJ

[color=#000000][font=Georgia, serif][size=4][left]MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A small plane heading for Georgia crashed Tuesday on a major New York-area highway, spiraling out of control, breaking up and hitting a wooded median and scattering wreckage across the road. All five people aboard were killed, but no one on the ground was injured.[/left][/size][/font][/color]

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A single-engine plane on its way to Atlanta spun out of control over northern New Jersey and crashed on a busy interstate Tuesday morning, killing all five people aboard, two investment bankers and the wife and two children of one of the men.





No one on the ground was injured, the authorities said, though the plane, which crashed on Interstate 287 in Harding Township, almost hit a southbound pickup. A dog aboard the plane also was killed.
They did not officially identify the victims, but Greenhill & Company, an investment bank based in New York, said it believed that two of its managing directors, Jeffrey F. Buckalew, 45, and Rakesh Chawla, 36, were aboard the plane, as were Mr. Buckalew's wife, Corinne, and their son Jackson and their daughter Meriwether. Mr. Buckalew is a pilot and owned the plane, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.
The single-engine plane, a Socata TBM-700, left Teterboro Airport at 9:51 a.m., bound for DeKalb-Peachtree Airport near Atlanta.
A few minutes after takeoff, the pilot spoke with air traffic controllers about icing conditions, said Robert Gretz, a senior air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board. But the pilot did not sound distressed, and it was unclear if he was reporting ice on his wings or simply asking about areas that could be icy.
The plane disappeared from radar at 17,500 feet. The crash occurred 14 minutes after takeoff.
Michelle Bellog, 43, was in the upstairs dining room of her two-story house about a block away when she heard the plane, with its engine sputtering.
"This plane was very loud because it was so close and its engines would stop and start," she said. "And the pilot was trying to rev it to keep the engines going."
She rushed to her window and saw the small plane, now as low as the treetops, "engulfed in dark, gray smoke" and flying northeast, toward the Interstate and Morristown Airport.
Ms. Bellog said she heard an explosion, which shook her house, as the plane began falling apart; pieces of the aircraft and tree branches plummeted from the sky and onto her neighbor's lawns. Moments later she saw the plane crest over the retaining wall that separates her neighborhood from the Interstate.
A split second after that, she heard a bigger explosion and saw a plume of black smoke rise from the road. "The smoke was rising up, just billowing up," she said. "I was terrified."
Kaitlyn Pires, 18, a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said her yard was also littered with plane parts. "I was on I-287 when it happened," she said. "My stepmom called and frantically said she heard a plane going overhead and then it crashed. She asked if I was O.K. and told me to get off the road."
Declan Long, 52, who works in sales support, said he heard the crash from his office and then smelled the stench.
"It smelled just like J.F.K. Airport, that pungent smell of fuel," he said. "Like someone having a barbecue; the stink of fuel was everywhere."
In a statement, Greenhill & Company called Mr. Buckalew “an experienced pilot whose passion was flying.”
“The firm is in deep mourning over the tragic and untimely death of two of its esteemed colleagues and members of Jeff’s family,” Robert F. Greenhill, the chairman of the firm, and Scott Bok, the chief executive officer, said jointly. “Jeff was one of the first employees of Greenhill. He and Rakesh were extraordinary professionals who were highly respected by colleagues and clients alike. They will be sorely missed, and our sympathies go out to their families and friends.”
Mr. Buckalew was the head of Greenhill’s North American Corporate Advisory activities. He joined Greenhill in 1996 after spending three years at Salomon Brothers and two years with Chemical Bank’s leveraged finance group.
Mr. Chawla joined the firm from the Blackstone Group in 2003.
Mr. Buckalew’s great-aunt, Frances Buckalew, 100, said the family named their daughter, Meriwether, after her husband.
“When they married, she fell in love with my husband and loved his name,” Ms. Buckalew said of Corinne Buckalew. “She said, 'If we ever have a little girl, we’ll name her Meriwether.'”
Mr. Buckalew had a passion for sports. He tied for 94th on Golf Digest’s list of “top golfers in finance” in 2007. And James W. May, executive director of the Arts and Sciences Foundation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where Mr. Buckalew received a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A., said Mr. Buckalew was an avid fan of North Carolina basketball and football.
“He wore the Carolina blue sweater with great pride,” Mr. May said.
Mr. May described Mr. Buckalew, who served on the finance committee for foundation, as a measured speaker, a model colleague, and a generous contributor to the university, who made donations to the economics department, where he was schooled as an undergraduate.
Mr. Buckalew flew his plane to board meetings in North Carolina, Mr. May said. “It was clearly something he enjoyed,” Mr. May said of the flying hobby. “It brought a smile to his face.”
Ms. Buckalew was a visual artist who had once taught art at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and was on the board of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Va.
Frances Buckalew, who lives in Richmond, Va., said Mr. Buckalew often flew between the family’s homes in New York and Charlottesville, Va. She said she thought that Jackson was about 7 or 8, while Meriwether was a couple of years younger.
She said that she recently received a holiday card from the family.
“It said they hope to see me during Christmas,” she said.

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