Israeli tech entrepreneurs ID'd as couple killed in Truckee plane crash

TRUCKEE, Calif. -- We're learning astir the 2 radical killed erstwhile a tiny level crashed portion trying to onshore astatine the Truckee airdrome Saturday.

Liron and Naomi Petrushka are from Israel and had been surviving successful California successful caller years, according to Israeli media.

The mates were tech entrepreneurs and investors.

They invested successful the task superior steadfast UpWest, based successful Palo Alto.

They are survived by 4 children.

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The Daher TBM 900 took disconnected from Denver, Colorado, connected Saturday afternoon, according to craft tracker FlightAware.

The craft crashed astatine astir 6:38 p.m. "near the country of Glenshire Drive and Olympic Blvd.," a crossroads northwest of the Truckee Tahoe Airport, constabulary said successful a statement.

"At this clip determination is nary menace to immoderate structures and nary roadworthy closures," constabulary said. "There volition beryllium a dense beingness of exigency responders successful the country for an extended play of time."

UpWest laminitis Gil Ben-Artzy told ABC7 News the victims ne'er sought the limelight, but they had a immense interaction connected the businesses they backed.

"They were quiescent leaders," helium said. "They weren't up beforehand and halfway you won't work astir them successful concern oregon concern publications. But if you speech to each azygous laminitis they invested in, they would ever accidental that they were their archetypal call."

Ben-Artzy says the brace wanted to springiness backmost to the Israeli tech satellite done investments and philanthropy.

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He says they were mentors to many, generous with their clip and their large hearts.

"They were genuinely inseparable arsenic a mates and they're leaving down an astonishing bequest and genuinely we are each devastated by this," Ben-Artzy said.

Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) arrived astatine the clang tract Sunday greeting to statesman documentation, according to a connection from the NTSB.

"The wreckage volition past beryllium recovered to a unafraid installation for further evaluation," the NTSB said. A preliminary study is expected wrong 30 days of the accident, according to the NTSB.

Its probe volition impact 3 superior areas -- the pilot, the craft and the operating environment, the bureau said.

The NTSB has requested witnesses of the mishap oregon those who person surveillance video oregon different accusation that could beryllium applicable to the probe to interaction the bureau astatine witness@ntsb.gov.

ABC7 News contributed to this report.

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