Dana J. Hyde, an alumnus of The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the US – better known as the 9/11 Commission – died in the shocking incident on March 3.
Hyde, 55, was one of five onboard the DC-bound aircraft, which was forced to divert to Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.Â
Others onboard included Hyde’s husband, Jonathan Chambers, and son, as well as two crew members – all of whom survived.Â
The National Transportation Safety Board didn’t reach any conclusions in its preliminary report on the main cause of the deadly March 3 accident, but it described a series of things that went wrong before and after the plane swooped out of control.
Confronted with several alerts in the cockpit of the Bombardier jet, pilots followed a checklist and turned off a switch that ‘trims’ or adjusts the stabilizer on the plane´s tail, the report said.
The plane’s nose then swept upward, subjecting the people inside to forces about four times the force of gravity, then pointed lower before again turning upward before pilots could regain control, the report said.
The family had reportedly been heading back to their home in Cabin John, Maryland when the plane started to rise abruptly following multiple cockpit alerts.
Pilots told investigators they did not encounter turbulence, as the NTSB had said in an initial assessment the day after the incident.
The jet was owned by Conexon LLC, a rural broadband company where Chambers is a partner.
The company provides high-speed internet service to rural communities. Prior to joining the company, Chambers was also once a prominent figure in Washington, working in the U.S. Senate as a Republican staff director and later as the Chief of the Office of Strategic Planning for the FCC.Â
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