Philly Inquirer co-owner among 7 dead in jet crash (Yahoo Sports)

[ASFN Admin]

Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz was killed along with six other people in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts, just days after reaching a deal that many hoped would end months of infighting at the newspaper and help restore it to its former glory. Katz's son, Drew, and a business partner confirmed Katz's death in the crash of a Gulfstream corporate jet that went down on takeoff Saturday night from Hanscom Field outside Boston on its way to New Jersey. Katz, 72, was returning from a gathering at the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Nancy Phillips, Katz's longtime partner and city editor at the Inquirer, was not aboard.

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