The president of a leading Jewish seminary died Saturday morning after the small plane he was piloting crashed about 70 miles northwest of Manhattan, according to the institution. The death of the president, Rabbi Aaron D. Panken of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was announced by Jean Bloch Rosensaft, a spokeswoman for the seminary, late Saturday night. The Federal Aviation Administration said an Aeronca 7AC aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Randall Airport in Orange County, N.Y., on Saturday morning. But Ms. Rosensaft confirmed that Rabbi Panken, 53, had been killed in the crash. The Times Herald-Record of Middletown, N.Y., said the second person on the plane had injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening.

Source: New York Times May 06, 2018 05:26 UTC