Billionaire coal tycoon among 7 Americans killed in Bahamas helicopter crash

Police in the Bahamas say the bodies of seven Americans in a downed helicopter have been taken to the capital in Nassau to be officially identified. Billionaire Chris Cline was among those Americans killed in the crash.

Police superintendent Shanta Knowles said they responded to a missing aircraft report from Florida, and were told that billionaire Chris Cline and a group of Americans from Big Grand Cay failed to arrive as expected in Fort Lauderdale. Cline, a billionaire coal tycoon, turned Foresight Energy into a billion-dollar company. Cline was also a major donor to Republican politicians

Chris Cline was a noted philanthropist in his home of West Virginia, and the state’s governor, Jim Justice, mourned Cline on Twitter. Today we lost a WV superstar and I lost a very close friend. Our families go back to the beginning of the Cline empire - Pioneer Fuel. Chris Cline built an empire and on every occasion was always there to give. What a wonderful, loving, and giving man.

— Governor Jim Justice July 5, 2019 Police superintendent also Knowles said information was preliminary and subject to change, but she did not believe there had been a distress call from the aircraft.A statement from the Royal Bahamas Police Force said the cause of Thursday’s crash two miles off Grand Cay was under investigation.

How many rich idiots have been killed on SINGLE ENGINE MACHINES....the list is endless

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