An Ontario couple and their three children have been identified as the victims of a deadly plane crash in Nashville earlier this week.
Nashville police said the pilot was 43-year-old Victor Dotsenko from King Township, roughly 50 km north of Toronto. Dotsenko’s wife, 39-year-old Rimma, and their three children, David, 12, Adam, 10, and Emma, 7, were also killed, police said.
King Township Mayor Steve Pellegrini posted a statement online expressing condolences to the family’s relatives and friends.
The family was killed when their 1978 Piper single-engine plane crashed and burst into flames alongside a highway west of downtown Nashville around 7:40 p.m. ET Monday evening.
Canada’s civil aircraft registry shows the plane was registered to an Ontario numbered company last July. Victor and Rimma Dotsenko are listed in public records as the company’s two directors.
The plane was based at the Brampton Flight Centre, which is owned and operated by the Brampton Flying Club, said its general manager, Allan Paige. He could not say whether the plane took off from there, however, as the airport is uncontrolled and does not have flight records.
Victor Dotsenko appears on a list of private pilot licence graduates at the Brampton Flight Centre in 2022.
Since last summer, flight history data suggests the plane had only been flown on short trips within Ontario, and once from the Niagara region to nearby Erie, Penn., and back.Then, on Monday, the plane was flown from the Milton area to Nashville, with two stops in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The fateful trip was by far the longest distance listed since the plane was registered to its Ontario owners.
An Ontario couple and their three children have been identified as the victims of a deadly plane crash in Nashville earlier this week.
Nashville police said the pilot was 43-year-old Victor Dotsenko from King Township, roughly 50 km north of Toronto. Dotsenko’s wife, 39-year-old Rimma, and their three children, David, 12, Adam, 10, and Emma, 7, were also killed, police said.
King Township Mayor Steve Pellegrini posted a statement online expressing condolences to the family’s relatives and friends.
The family was killed when their 1978 Piper single-engine plane crashed and burst into flames alongside a highway west of downtown Nashville around 7:40 p.m. ET Monday evening.
Canada’s civil aircraft registry shows the plane was registered to an Ontario numbered company last July. Victor and Rimma Dotsenko are listed in public records as the company’s two directors.
The plane was based at the Brampton Flight Centre, which is owned and operated by the Brampton Flying Club, said its general manager, Allan Paige. He could not say whether the plane took off from there, however, as the airport is uncontrolled and does not have flight records.
Victor Dotsenko appears on a list of private pilot licence graduates at the Brampton Flight Centre in 2022.
Since last summer, flight history data suggests the plane had only been flown on short trips within Ontario, and once from the Niagara region to nearby Erie, Penn., and back.Then, on Monday, the plane was flown from the Milton area to Nashville, with two stops in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The fateful trip was by far the longest distance listed since the plane was registered to its Ontario owners.
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