Connecticut police confirmed Saturday that Bill Henningsgaard was piloting the plane on a trip with his son, Maxwell, to tour East Coast colleges when the small propeller-driven plane crashed. The two children killed were inside one of the homes. They were identified as 13-year-old Sade Brantley and 1-year-old Madisyn Mitchell. Henningsgaard was coming in for a landing at Tweed New Haven Airport in rainy weather Friday when the plane struck the homes, engulfing them in flames. The aircraft's left wing lodged in one house and its right wing in the other. He did not declare emergency before the crash, NTSB officials said Saturday afternoon. NTSB Air Safety Investigator Patrick Murray said that the pilot was in contact with tower control in the moments leading up to the crash before losing transmission a few seconds later. Earlier in the day it was revealed that the accident was not the first crash for the pilot, a former Microsoft executive.
