{"id":1945223,"date":"2023-06-06T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-maga-donor-says-entire-family-killed-in-virginia-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:34:26","slug":"prominent-maga-donor-says-entire-family-killed-in-virginia-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-maga-donor-says-entire-family-killed-in-virginia-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA donor&#8217;s entire family dies in Virginia plane crash."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprominent-maga-donor-says-entire-family-killed-in-virginia-plane-crash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945223&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Major Trump Donor Identified as Owner of Crashed Jet<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A small aircraft owned by Florida businessman and prominent \u201cMAGA\u201d donor John Rumpel entered a no-fly zone over Washington, D.C., on Sunday and later crashed in southwest Virginia, leaving one crew member and three passengers dead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Residents throughout the Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-maga-donor-says-entire-family-killed-in-virginia-plane-crash\/\" title=\"MAGA donor's entire family dies in Virginia plane crash.\">area reportedly heard<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/william-shatner-90-famous-for-playing-captain-kirk-blasts-into-the-final-frontier\/\" title=\"William Shatner, 90, Famous For Playing Captain Kirk, Blasts Into The Final Frontier\">loud sonic boom<\/a> after F-16 jets from Joint Base Andrews scrambled to respond to Rumpel&#8217;s Cessna Citation jet.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rumpel, 75, owner of Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc., told The Washington Post that his \u201centire family,\u201d including his daughter, two-year-old grandchild, and her nanny, were on board the jet when it crashed into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-lawmakers-crack-down-on-chinese-business-operating-near-air-force-base\/\" title=\"Texas Lawmakers Crack Down on Chinese Business Operating Near Air Force Base\">sparsely populated area<\/a> near Montebello, Virginia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe know nothing about the crash,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are talking to the FAA now \u2014\u00a0I\u2019ve got to keep the line clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virginia state police told local media that authorities found no survivors at the crash site.<\/p>\n<h3>Investigation Underway<\/h3>\n<p>US aviation officials on Monday were investigating the fatal crash of an \u201cunresponsive\u201d private jet. Authorities reportedly attempted to contact its pilot after the aircraft approached areas around the nation\u2019s capital, including the White House.<\/p>\n<p>North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) officials said it was not immediately known why the pilot did not respond to attention flares or why the plane later crashed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDuring this event, the NORAD aircraft also used flares \u2014 which may have been visible to the public \u2014 in an attempt to draw attention from the pilot,\u201d the statement said. \u201cFlares are employed with highest regard for safety of the intercepted aircraft and people on the ground. Flares burn out quickly and completely and there is no danger to the people on the ground when dispensed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the aircraft departed from Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was bound for Long Island MacArthur Airport in New York, but eventually crashed about 150 miles southwest of D.C., in the Shenandoah Valley.<\/p>\n<h3>Donor&#8217;s Political Ties<\/h3>\n<p>Rumpel had been a staunch Trump supporter and has reportedly donated approximately $250,000 to the former president\u2019s campaign in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Rumpel\u2019s wife, Barabara, served on Trump\u2019s 2nd Amendment Coalition, representing the NRA women\u2019s leadership forum.<\/p>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board will reportedly handle the investigation into the crash and is expected to release a preliminary report in approximately three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A donor to ex-President Trump admitted to being the owner of a small plane that breached a no-fly zone over Washington, D.C. The plane crashed in southwest Virginia, killing three passengers and one crew member. F-16 jets were scrambled, causing a loud sonic boom heard throughout the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1945225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6444,7475,5131,4260,3881,5656,9530,5468],"class_list":["post-1945223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-crash","tag-dies","tag-donors","tag-entire","tag-family","tag-maga","tag-plane","tag-virginia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}