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Prominent Trump Donor's 'Entire Family' Killed in Plane Crash After Being Intercepted by F-16s Over DC
The Western Journal ^ | June, 5, 2023 | George C. Upper III

Posted on 06/05/2023 9:24:25 AM PDT by Boomer

A frequent donor to the NRA and Republican politicians and causes told reporters that he lost several family members when a private jet crashed after flying through restricted airspace Sunday.

John Rumpel told The Washington Post that his “entire family” was on board the Cessna Citation that crashed near Montebello, Virginia, around 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Multiple outlets, including The New York Times, reported that Rumpel’s daughter, 2-year-old granddaughter, and a nanny went down with the plane, as well as a pilot.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bidencrimefamily; bidencriminalregime; cessnacitation; cw2; epstein; johnrumpel; ronbrown; sethrich; trump; virginiacide
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Nothing definitive yet but it's thought the jet lost cabin pressure before anyone could don an oxygen mask so everyone went to sleep, including the pilot.
1 posted on 06/05/2023 9:24:25 AM PDT by Boomer
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To: Boomer

It’s happened before, but is still suspicious these days, especially with the democrats propensity to be involved in so many *accidents*, *suicides*, and *disappearances*.


2 posted on 06/05/2023 9:26:29 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Boomer

That is one egregious headline..................


3 posted on 06/05/2023 9:26:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Boomer

Payne Stewart redux


4 posted on 06/05/2023 9:26:39 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Boomer

Pro Golfer, Stuart Payne died in a similar scenario. He was in a Learjet.


5 posted on 06/05/2023 9:27:05 AM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: Boomer

Certainly some kind of medical emergency. Loss of cabin pressure is what happened to Paine Stewart some years ago.


6 posted on 06/05/2023 9:28:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: fightin kentuckian

But don’t the passengers mercifully die before the plane crashes??

I remember the Payne Stewart incident like it was yesterday. They filmed the jet in the air knowing the passengers inside were dead before the plane crashed.


7 posted on 06/05/2023 9:29:34 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Boomer

That’s how champion pro golfer, Payne Stewart, died. The private plane he was in lost cabin pressure and flew on its own almost all the way across the US from Florida in a northwesterly direction until it ran out of fuel and crashed. All aboard perished. US fighter planes escorted it all the way but, of course, could do nothing to prevent the crash.


8 posted on 06/05/2023 9:30:08 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Boomer

what a crap headline...this appears to be the same issue that killed the people in the Payne Stewart plane...


9 posted on 06/05/2023 9:30:57 AM PDT by stylin19a ("Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Vulgar Brawl")
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To: Boomer; metmom

Nothing definitive yet but it’s thought the jet lost cabin pressure before anyone could don an oxygen mask so everyone went to sleep, including the pilot.

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the flight of payne stewart


10 posted on 06/05/2023 9:31:21 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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I’ve been hoping this would happen to all the Davos group’s jets next time they fly into one of their mass-murder plotting meetings.


11 posted on 06/05/2023 9:31:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: stylin19a

I don’t think the headline is bad. In fact it summarizes the entire incident, including the family and relationship to Trump is one sentence. Someone did an amazing job with that.

How much of it is relevant at this time could be debated though.


12 posted on 06/05/2023 9:33:46 AM PDT by Boomer (The biden regime / identity politics is a clear and present threat to this constitutional republic.)
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To: stylin19a

I’m surprised they didn’t say they stopped the plane from intentionally crashing into the White House.


13 posted on 06/05/2023 9:34:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger
That is one egregious headline...

Yes, it sure is. Also, almost all the news 'reporting' focused on the sonic boom over DC while all but totally ignoring the tragedy that a young mother, her 2-hear-old child and two other adults were killed in the crash. DC is a cesspool of the deepest, darkest, rottenest kind.

14 posted on 06/05/2023 9:35:03 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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whoa...I forgot to look at it with my beer goggles on...


15 posted on 06/05/2023 9:37:26 AM PDT by stylin19a ("Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Vulgar Brawl")
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To: Red Badger
Our "news" media is utterly rotten to the core.

In what was an obvious tragedy, they construct the headline ot make it seem like Trump's donors were "attacking DC" and had to get shot down by F-16s.

This is why I completely stay away from all mainsteam media.

16 posted on 06/05/2023 9:39:38 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,301,904 Truth | 86,921,174 Twitter)
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To: Boomer

Reminds me of an old OLD Steve Canyon TV show “Operation Intercept” Episode aired Mar 31, 1959” where he has to shoot down an American Plane headed for the USSR.
If this is the one I recall from decades ago, some target shooters accidentally shot holes in the aircraft causing those aboard to die in flight.

DANG what a Memory I have at 76!


17 posted on 06/05/2023 9:40:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Boomer

That’s what I’m thinking.

A Citation is a big enough jet to (typically) require two pilots.

Something would have to take out both.

Or perhaps they both had the fish.


18 posted on 06/05/2023 9:40:12 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: God luvs America

Not sure if they’re dead but they are unconscious due to oxygen starvation (hypoxia). There is oxygen at that altitude but not enough to sustain consciousness.

Pilots usually spend time in altitude chambers to learn their symptoms of hypoxia so they can recognize it and put on their oxygen masks on before they pass out. But it sneaks up on you. For me it feels like hot flashes at first then I act loopy, like a happy drunk.

I wonder if that aircraft had a depressurization alarm.


19 posted on 06/05/2023 9:41:52 AM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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So basically, the headline admonishes those who may feel some empathy for this family because they were “TRUMP donors, “don’t feel bad, they deserved it”


20 posted on 06/05/2023 9:42:15 AM PDT by Toespi
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