Fatal plane crash under examination
PHOTO BY ROBERT BLANCHARD
Emergency officials were flown to the scene following a plane crash in the Tiger Creek Preserve around 12:30 p.m.June 7. On board the 2006 Pilatus PC-12/47 (single-turboprop, fixed wing),was pilot and Junction City businessman Ronald Bramlage, his wife, and four children, who were returning to Kansas from a trip to the Bahamas. The entire family perished in the crash.
As a community in Junction City, Kan., mourns the loss of an entire family of six in a plane crash in Lake Wales, Fla., the National Safety Transportation Board is trying to make sense of what exactly happened to the Pilatus PC-12/47 aircraft.
According to a preliminary report released by the NTSB on June 18, on June 7 at about 12:35 p.m., the airplane piloted by Ronald Bramlage, 45, a businessman in Junction City, Kan., who owned Roadside Ventures LLC, and carrying his wife, Rebecca, 43, and the couple’s children — Brandon, 15; Boston, 13; Beau, 11; and 8-year-old Roxanne — “departed controlled flight,” experiencing an in-flight breakup, crashing in the Tiger Creek Preserve.
