Medical analysis entrepreneur Glen de Vries, who flew to area final month with actor William Shatner aboard a rocketship operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, died in a small aircraft crash in New Jersey, state police stated on Friday.
The aircraft crashed on Thursday in Sussex County, New Jersey, simply northwest of New York City, police stated, including that De Vries, 49, and one other man aboard the plane, Thomas Fischer, 54, had been killed.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating the crash, based on state police.”We are devastated to hear of the sudden passing of Glen de Vries. He brought so much life and energy to the entire Blue Origin team and to his fellow crewmates,” Blue Origin stated on Twitter.De Vries, an instrument-rated non-public pilot and founding father of the scientific analysis firm Medidata Solutions, soared to area final month in a suborbital joyride aboard the New Shepard rocketship of astro-tourism enterprise Blue Origin, using together with three different civilian crew members.The most notable of the 4 New Shepard passengers was Shatner, the 90-year-old actor finest recognized for his position as Captain James T Kirk on the unique Nineteen Sixties tv present “Star Trek.” The Oct. 13 launch made Shatner the oldest particular person ever to fly into area.The two different crewmates for that flight had been former Nasa engineer Chris Boshuizen and Blue Origin Vice President Audrey Powers.Medidata Solutions, fashioned by de Vries in 1999, ranks because the world’s most used scientific analysis platform, based on a profession profile of de Vries that Blue Origin posted when he was chosen as one of many 4 New Shepard passengers.He was vice chair of life sciences and healthcare on the French software program firm Dassault Systemes, which acquired Medidata in 2019. He additionally served as a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.ALSO READ | ‘I hope I by no means get well from this’: Star Trek’s William Shatner shares emotional expertise of going to area