The fourth victim who died when a kit-built electric plane crashed in California has been identified as the son of a Zoom executive.
Isaac Zimmern, 27, was with his long-time girlfriend Emma Wilmer-Shiles as they boarded the homemade plane piloted by their friend, Lochie Ferrier, who also died in the crash last week with his fiancée, Cassidy Petit.
Zimmern is the son of Johann Zimmern, 59, head of Global Education Marketing at Zoom who lives in San Francisco’s Sunnyside neighborhood in a $1.1 million home, the International Business Times reported.
The younger Zimmern also lives in San Francisco with Wilmer-Shiles, 27, and the pair have been together for 10 years.
Zimmern has left his hometown to spend the last three years working in New York City, most recently serving as a senior operations associate for Burrow, a Brooklyn-based furniture manufacturing company, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He was identified as the fourth person aboard the Cozy Mark IV, a four-seater single-engine plane that crashed last Sunday at about 4pm off the coast of Half Moon Bay.
Isaac Zimmern was killed in the crash. Facebook An electric plane built from kits crashes in California killing four friends. China News Service via Getty Images Zimmern died with his longtime girlfriend, Emma Wilmer-Shiles. Facebook
A 911 caller reported seeing it crash into the water after first hearing an “engine sputter,” said Sgt. Philip Hallworth of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board said, noting that a preliminary report would be completed in a few weeks.
The probable cause report, however, will take between one and two years.
The Federal Aviation Administration is also involved in the investigation.
Wilmer-Shiles is a graduate of MIT. Family Distribution
Only Wilmer-Shiles’ body has been found so far, with the US Coast Guard calling off a search and rescue operation less than a day later because the “survivability” of the remaining three was unlikely, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Rescue teams from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office are still searching for the bodies of Zimmern, Petit and Ferrier.
Ferrier, a well-known Australian in the experimental aircraft community, is an MIT graduate with a degree in aerospace engineering.
She is the owner of the doomed plane and was recently engaged to Petit, a venture capitalist with San Francisco-based RH Capital.
Petit had shared a photo of the couple’s engagement in the New Year in front of the snowy mountains in Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming, his last post before the accident.
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