The experienced pilot who was at the helm of the Cessna Citation that crashed in Virginia earned himself the nickname Mr Safety after flying more than 25,000 hours for Southwest Airlines.
Barbara Rumpel, a businesswoman and member of the NRA Leadership Form, posted Sunday, confirming that her daughter and granddaughter died in the crash.
The teen s 1994 death spurred John Rumpel to invest in a piece of real estate that would make him millions, while creating a multimillion-dollar institution that served as his daughter s namesake.
John and Barbara Rumpel, whose daughter and granddaughter were killed in a private jet crash on Sunday afternoon in Washington DC, lost another daughter, Victoria, in a 1994 scuba accident.