the pilots tried to get the cessna pilots attention unsuccessfully for 30 minutes before it went down in southwest virginia. flares were fired to get the pilots attention, he was unresponsive. norad that says it did not bring down the plane which appears to have run out of fuel in the end. on board the flight, adina is, e was the daughter of john and barbara rumple who served in the executive committee of the nra women s leadership forum and wrote the following message on facebook. my family is gone, my daughter and granddaughter, the plane on autopilot went down to the mountains of southwest virginia near montebello in the george washington national forest come at the crash site a large crater and no survivors. the ntsb is investigating the cause of the crash, preliminary report is expected within ten days. i was going to ask you, you