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    Karenna Groff plane crash: Grieving dad’s heart-piercing words after athletes and doctors died in disaster

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    By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, CHIEF U.S. REPORTER

    Published: 07:19 EDT, 14 April 2025 | Updated: 07:34 EDT, 14 April 2025

    The grieving father of an MIT grad who was killed in a horror plane crash in upstate New York says his family’s suffering has only just begun following the tragedy that killed a family of doctors and athletes. 

     ‘Their suffering is over. Ours has just begun,’ John Santoro said about his son James Santoro and his girlfriend Karenna Groff, who were killed when their private jet went down on Saturday in a field in Copake, killing all six on board.

    Karenna’s father, neuroscientist Dr. Michael Groff, as well as her mother, urogynecologist Dr. Joy Saini, and brother Jared Groff were also killed. 

    ‘Still couldn’t believe it was true. I still don’t believe it’s true,’ John Santoro told Boston 25 News. 

    James and Karenna met as freshmen at MIT and planned to engage this summer, according to Santoro.

    Karenna played soccer in MIT and was named the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year.  She grew up in Massachusetts and was studying biomedical engineering. 

    ‘Karenna was a fantastic person,’ Santoro said about her. ‘And after you met her parents, it became pretty clear where she got it from.’

    Karenna Groff plane crash: Grieving dad’s heart-piercing words after athletes and doctors died in disaster

    MIT grads James Santoro and his girlfriend Karenna Groff were killed in the plane crash 

    The plane crash victims were identified as Karenna Groff (middle left), a former MIT soccer player, her boyfriend and MIT graduate James Santoro (right), Karenna's father and neuroscientist Dr. Michael Groff (left), as well as her mother and urogynecologist Dr. Joy Saini (middle right)

    The plane crash victims were identified as Karenna Groff (middle left), a former MIT soccer player, her boyfriend and MIT graduate James Santoro (right), Karenna’s father and neuroscientist Dr. Michael Groff (left), as well as her mother and urogynecologist Dr. Joy Saini (middle right)

    James was a math major from New Jersey and played lacrosse for the school.

    After graduating, the pair moved into Manhattan where Karenna enrolled in New York University’s medical school and James worked as an investment associate for Silver Point.

    The private plane the group was traveling on was on the way to the Catskills for a birthday and Passover celebration.

    Shortly before the crash, the pilot had radioed air traffic control at Columbia County Airport to say he had missed the initial approach and requested a new approach plan, officials with the National Transportation Safety Board said at a Sunday briefing.

    While preparing the new coordinates, air traffic controllers attempted to relay a low altitude alert three times, with no response from the pilot and no distress call, officials said. 

    Investigators obtained video of the final seconds of the flight, which ‘appears to show that the aircraft was intact and crashed at a high rate of descent into the ground,’ NTSB official Todd Inman told reporters. 

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