The plane, however, crashed during takeoff, leaving the jet burning and inverted on the tarmac, killing everyone on board. Among them a corporate pilot who was recently hired at the Texas law firm linked to the plane, and an event planner who had worked with the firm on previous occasions.

Roland Steadham spoke to a class of aviation students the week prior to his fatal crash, per an instructor at a local flight school

Authorities say a small plane has crashed in a rural area of Norte de Santander province in northeast Colombia, killing 15 people including a congressman.

The airport director deferred all questions on the status of the victims' remains to the medical examiner on scene and police.

Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church said a staff member who “possessed a beautiful spirit" was among the victims of a fatal private jet crash in Bangor, Maine.

Roland Steadham, the beloved veteran CBS meteorologist and aviation mentor who was killed in plane crash in rural Idaho, had visited a local class a week before the accident and left students with

The NTSB and FAA were onsite and a preliminary report is expected within 30 days.

The cause of the crash of the two-seater turboprop aircraft is under investigation. Thailand recently acquired the fighter-trainer, which is produced in the United States by Beechcraft, a part of Textron Aviation. The Thai Air Force commissioned the final of its eight AT-6TH planes in September.