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Megan Hilty's Pregnant Sister & Family Dies successful Plane Crash
The hunt for the plane crash that took the lives of 10 people, including three members of Smash star Megan Hilty's family, has ended.
On Sept. 12, the National Transportation Safe Board (NTSB) announced that they recovered the wreckage belonging to the oversea level that crashed disconnected Whidbey Island successful Washington connected Sept. 4. The debris was discovered astir 190 feet underwater successful Mutiny Bay.
Due to the extent and 3 to 5 knot existent of the water, the NTSB said that the "most suitable instrumentality of recovery" would beryllium a remotely operated vehicle.
On Sept. 6, the United States Coast Guard confirmed that 10 people—including Megan's large sister Lauren Hilty, brother-in-law Ross Mickel and their son Remy Mickel—were killed during the flight, which was traveling from Friday Harbor, a tourer destination successful Washington State's San Juan Islands, to the state's Renton Municipal Airport.
So far, 1 assemblage has been recovered from the wreckage and was transferred to the Island County coroner. However, the unfortunate has not yet been positively identified.
Following the tragedy, Megan honored her precocious household members successful a heartbreaking tribute connected societal media, revealing that her sister was acceptable to springiness commencement to a babe lad named Luca next month.
"The past 3 days person been the worst of our lives," the Tony nominee captioned her Sept. 7 Instagram post. "There are genuinely nary words to appropriately convey the extent of our grief. The past happening I wanted to bash was admit this achy household calamity publicly, but it's travel to my attraction that respective quality outlets person misgendered my saccharine nephew and immoderate haven't adjacent mentioned babe Luca."
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Megan also noted that Lauren and Ross were besides parents to a daughter, who was not connected the formation erstwhile it crashed. The histrion added that she wants to keep her niece's sanction backstage due to the fact that she is simply a minor.
However, Megan said she is grateful for each the emotion she and her household person received since this calamity occurred.
"The outpouring of emotion and enactment has meant truthful overmuch to everyone successful our family," Megan shared. "It has been truthful comforting to cognize conscionable however loved Lauren, Ross, Remy and Luca genuinely are."
