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Rockefeller billionaire's son dead after single-engine plane crashes minutes after takeoff in Westchester
TERENCE CULLEN , BARRY PADDOCK , LARRY MCSHANE
The son of billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller died Friday morning when his private plane crashed just minutes after leaving Westchester County Airport.
Dr. Richard Rockefeller, 65, was piloting his single-engine plane back to his Maine home on the morning after celebrating his dad’s 99th birthday, said Rockefeller family spokesman Fraser Seitel.
The pair shared dinner on Thursday night, just hours before Rockefeller’s Piper PA-46 plane left the tarmac on its disastrously brief flight at 8:08 a.m. from Runway 16.
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Richard Gilder Rockefeller (born 1949) A physician and philanthropist; chairman of the United States advisory board of the international aid group Doctors Without Borders; Trustee and Chair of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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(71,265 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...who put service to humanity over personal profit. 
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(71,265 posts)Cooley Hurd
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Lucky Luciano
(11,250 posts)...in Greenwich on King street. I sat down at my desk at 7:45 this morning. So close to a plane crash I did not even know happened until I read this.
