Plane crash dead include mother, two of her children

WASHINGTON — An Indiana woman, two of her four children and a foreign exchange student were among the six people killed in a small plane crash in Virginia, a family member said Saturday.

Fifty-two-year-old Lisa Borinstein, 19-year-old Luke Borinstein and 15-year-old Emma Borinstein were killed in Friday’s crash along with a foreign exchange student, Joseph Borinstein, the children’s grandfather, said in a telephone interview Saturday.

Joseph Borinstein said the family had chartered the plane to fly to Virginia, where his eldest grandson Drew is a senior at Virginia Military Institute. Emma’s twin brother stayed at home in Shelbyville, Ind., because he had football and basketball practice, he said.

The Virginia State Police on Saturday identified the others killed in the crash as 15-year-old Maren Timmermann of Berlin, Germany; 64-year-old William C. Hamerstadt of Carmel, Ind., who was piloting the plane; and 73-year-old Robert D. Ross of Louisville, Ky., the owner of the plane.

Both Emma and Maren were students at Triton Central High School, Emma a sophomore and Maren a junior, according to the school system.

Virginia State Police said in a statement that the plane took off from Louisville on Friday morning and stopped in Shelbyville before continuing on to Virginia. The plane crashed into trees after aborting its landing at Shannon Airport in Fredericksburg, Va.

The Virginia State Police, Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the crash.