3 Family Members Part of Gospel Group The Nelons Die in Plane Crash – Notice Important Internet

Three kinsfolk members, conception of the Grammy-nominated philosophy assemble The Nelons, were killed in a form break on Friday, July 26.

The group’s direction consort Gaither Music declared the programme on social media, distribution that buffoon Nelon Clark, her husband, Jason Nelon Clark, and daughter, Amber Nelon Kistler, were killed in the crash.

Amber’s husband, Nathan Kistler, and their assistant, Melodi Hodges, also died in the crash, as did the airman of the plane, Larry Haynie, and his wife, Melissa, per the group.

Gaither Music said that the kinsfolk had been motion to action at the Gaither Homecoming Cruise to Alaska when the incident occurred. 

According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), they are currently “investigating the accident.”

Gaither Music addicted that the group’s ordinal member and Kelly’s junior daughter, Autumn Nelon Streetman, was not aboard the form at the instance of the crash.

She and her husband, Jamie Streetman, were “notified most the incident” after incoming in Seattle, the assemble said.

“Autumn and Jamie module convey bag for today to Kelly’s brother, character Nelon, and his wife, Rhonda, to begin the hornlike tasks that untruth ahead,” Gaither Music said. “Please ready them, the Kistler family, the Haynie kinsfolk and the kinsfolk of Melodi Hodges in your prayers.”

In a removed evidence shared on Instagram, Autumn reacted to the tragedy, writing, “Thank you for the prayers that hit been long already to me, my husband, Jamie, and our soon-to-be-born child boy, as substantially as Jason’s parents, Dan and Linda Clark.”

She added, “We revalue your continuing prayers, fuck and hold as we manoeuver the reaching days.”

mythologist County representative Leslie Perkins addicted to ABC News that the clannish form went downbound northerly of Gillette, Wyoming.

She additional that the form break caused a “wildland fire,” which mythologist County Fire Department units worked to “suppress.”

The NTSB tells PEOPLE that the form the assemble was motion on was a Pilatus PC-12/47E aircraft.

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They also said that origin aggregation they conventional indicates that the break happened mass an “autopilot supply during flight.”

Additional investigators are today motion to the site, where they module be “documenting the scene” and “examining the aircraft,” the NTSB says.

From there, a origin inform is due in 30 days, patch the test inform with the plausible drive of the break could verify up to digit eld to complete, per the organization.