The son of media executive Lewis Katz confirmed Sunday that his father, who had just acquired the Philadelphia Inquirer after a bitter feud with former partners, was among seven people killed in the fiery crash of a small jet.
"It is with an incomprehensible amount of grief and the heaviest of hearts that my sister and I announce the loss of our beloved dad," Drew Katz said in a statement hours after the Gulfstream IV crashed while taking off from an airport in Bedford, Mass., about 20 miles from Boston.
Lewis Katz was 72. His successful acquisition of the Inquirer along with partner H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest last week came with vows to fund more in-depth and investigative reporting. The two gained full control of the Inquirer, along with the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com, with an $88 billion bid, following a long-running dispute with three former partners over which direction the news organization should take. This was the fifth time since 2006 that the news organization has been sold.
Katz had said afterward that he hoped to make the newspaper "fatter." "It's going to be an enormous undertaking," Katz said of running the newspaper, whose rivals for control had pushed for more local news and less of the expensive investigative coverage that Katz and Lenfest favored.
In a statement, the Inquirer's editor, Bill Marimow, called Katz "an exceptional man."
"He loved his family and his friends and they loved him back in return," said Marimow.
Matthew Brelis, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, said the jet was taking off at about 9:40 p.m. and heading to Atlantic City, NJ. Brelis did not know how many of the seven on board were passengers and how many were crew. Nobody on board was identified other than Katz.
Witnesses who heard the crash and saw the aftermath described loud booms and flames.
"We were panicked because we thought 'what could we do other than call 911,'" Tara Harding, who was staying at a nearby hotel, told Boston.com. "It sounded like the plane was shutting down," Harding said. "Like that engine-faialure sound you hear in the movies."
"I heard a big boom, and I thought at the time that someone was trying to break into my house because it shook it," said 14-year-old Jared Patterson, the Boston Globe reported. "I thought someone was like banging on the door trying to get in."
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