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Body of Indian-American hotelier recovered
Dharam Shourie
New York, June 16 (PTI) The body of an Indian-American
hotelier, who died along with his son and a doctor friend when
a family-owned small plane carrying them nosedived into the
Mohawk river here during an afternoon leisure trip, has been
recovered.
The body of Albany-based hotelier George Kolath, who
hails from India's southern state of Kerala, was recovered
Monday afternoon, state police said. Bodies of his 11-year-old
son George Kolath Jr and friend identified as Krishnan
Raghavan (52) were pulled out from the river on Sunday.
Kolath was entertaining his son and Raghavan when the
Piper Cherokee went down shortly after taking off from the
nearby Mohawk Valley Airport on Sunday, Federal Aviation
Administration spokesman Jim Peters said.
The Piper Aircraft crashed in the Mohawk River in the
town of Glenville, about 40 km northwest of Albany. It sank in
30 feet of water and was pulled out from the river on Monday
and loaded onto a barge.
George Kolath, the older brother of actor, producer
and director in India Tom George Kolath, was a successful
businessman who owned hotels in several cities, his
brother-in-law Anil Paulose told the Times Union newspaper of
Albany.
Kolath was the founder of Kolathy Hospitality Group,
an Albany-based hotel management and development company.
Paulose said the doomed aircraft belonged to Kolath and that
the three planned to take a leisure trip after lunch.
National Transportation Safety Board public affairs
officer Keith Holloway said it was unclear who was at the
controls of the single-engine plane. "We are in the beginning
stages of our investigation," he said and added that the FAA
is assisting.
Raghavan's friends recalled how the doctor loved being
in the air. "This man loved flying so much that he wanted to
do it any way possible," Chandler Atkins, President of Quik
Flight, an Albany-based air charter company that shut down in
November, said.
Raghavan, who had served the company as medical
director for three years, has two children. PTI
New York, June 16 (PTI) The body of an Indian-American
hotelier, who died along with his son and a doctor friend when
a family-owned small plane carrying them nosedived into the
Mohawk river here during an afternoon leisure trip, has been
recovered.
The body of Albany-based hotelier George Kolath, who
hails from India's southern state of Kerala, was recovered
Monday afternoon, state police said. Bodies of his 11-year-old
son George Kolath Jr and friend identified as Krishnan
Raghavan (52) were pulled out from the river on Sunday.
Kolath was entertaining his son and Raghavan when the
Piper Cherokee went down shortly after taking off from the
nearby Mohawk Valley Airport on Sunday, Federal Aviation
Administration spokesman Jim Peters said.
The Piper Aircraft crashed in the Mohawk River in the
town of Glenville, about 40 km northwest of Albany. It sank in
30 feet of water and was pulled out from the river on Monday
and loaded onto a barge.
George Kolath, the older brother of actor, producer
and director in India Tom George Kolath, was a successful
businessman who owned hotels in several cities, his
brother-in-law Anil Paulose told the Times Union newspaper of
Albany.
Kolath was the founder of Kolathy Hospitality Group,
an Albany-based hotel management and development company.
Paulose said the doomed aircraft belonged to Kolath and that
the three planned to take a leisure trip after lunch.
National Transportation Safety Board public affairs
officer Keith Holloway said it was unclear who was at the
controls of the single-engine plane. "We are in the beginning
stages of our investigation," he said and added that the FAA
is assisting.
Raghavan's friends recalled how the doctor loved being
in the air. "This man loved flying so much that he wanted to
do it any way possible," Chandler Atkins, President of Quik
Flight, an Albany-based air charter company that shut down in
November, said.
Raghavan, who had served the company as medical
director for three years, has two children. PTI
