He had written hits for Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney and other country stars. Two other people on the plane were also killed when it crashed into a field in Franklin, N.C., officials said.
A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board detailed how a flight bound for Europe hit turbulence violent enough to send 18 passengers to the hospital.
The N.T.S.B. report, released late Tuesday, suggests that while the pilots had been on the lookout for bad weather, the incident caught them off guard.
Ethan Guo said that he had been effectively stranded at a Chilean military base on King George Island since June 28. The authorities said he landed without permission.
Ethan Guo at Geneva Airport in Switzerland. He was trying to fly solo to all seven continents before he was detained on King George Island off Antarctica in June.
Joseph D. Emerson, an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot, was sitting in an extra seat in the cockpit during a flight on Oct. 22, 2023, when he tried to cut fuel to the engines, the authorities said.
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