Former New York mayor's great-granddaughter among 6 dead in Texas plane crash
The great-granddaughter of a former New York mayor was among the six killed in a small plane crash Monday in the rocky hills of a ranch northwest of San Antonio, Texas.
The Texas Department of Public Safety released the names of the six victims from a twin engine Beechcraft BE58 that went down before 9 a.m. CST as it prepared to land at an airport in Kerrville, Texas.
Everyone on board died. It's believed that the group, which included architects, a planner and investors, took the six-seat plane to survey property.
Among the deceased is Angela Webb Kensinger, 54, of Houston, the great-granddaughter of former New York City mayor William Jay Gaynor, the New York Daily News reported.
Kensinger's husband, Stuart Roben Kensinger, 55, also died in the crash.
Gaynor, a Democrat who was part of the Tammany Hall political machine but later split, served as New York mayor from 1910 to 1913. Gaynor survived a gunshot wound after being shot early in his term by a recently fired city employee. But he died three years later from a heart attack in 1913 before his reelection.
Angela Webb Kensinger was the longtime varsity girls' lacrosse head coach at the St. John's School, a Houston private school, the Houston ABC television affiliate reported.
Stuart Kensinger, a Houston real estate investor, was the founding director of Jerusalem Peacebuilders, an interfaith non-profit organization with the stated mission of "creating a better future for humanity across religions, cultures, and nationalities."
Other victims, according to the state department of public safety, were:
• Jeffrey Carl Weiss, 65, of Houston, who was the pilot and owned the plane. Weiss was a senior vice president for investments at Raymond James and Associates in Houston
• Marc Tellepsen, 45, of Houston, who owned a landscape architecture firm in Houston
• Mark Damien Scioneaux, 58, of Houston, who worked in architecture and planning for Tellepsen's firm, according to his LinkedIn page.
• Scott Reagan Miller, 55, of Houston, an architect
KTRK television quoted a statement from the Tellepsen family who said they believe an architectural client chartered the plane and were taking Tellepsen and Scioneaux on a short trip to survey property when the aircraft crashed.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are leading the investigation and any further information must be gathered from them.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Former New York mayor's great-granddaughter among 6 dead in Texas plane crash
