FAA Investigates Small Plane Crash
A University of Texas professor and her husband were killed in a crash involving a small plane near Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says a Hawker Beechcraft A36 went down Sunday afternoon near Alma, about 70 miles northwest of Brunswick. Bergen says the plane was en route, flying from Fernandina Beach, Fla. to Lawrenceville, Ga. when the plane crashed.
Bacon County Coroner Vic Peacock says Sid Shah of Tucker and Shama Gamkhar were killed in the plane crash.
The Austin American-Statesman reports Gamkhar was a public affairs professor at UT in Austin and that the couple lived in different cities, but would often fly to see each other. Her husband, Shah, was a licensed pilot.
Authorities say that the cause of the crash is still under investigation.
“We have lost a beloved colleague, devoted teacher and wonderful friend, whose memory and example we will carry with us,” said Robert Hutchings, dean of the LBJ School said in a statement. “Our hearts go out to Shama and Sid’s family and friends.”
Gamkhar. 54, joined the LBJ School in 1996 as an Assistant Professor and more recently served as graduate adviser for the Master of Public Affairs degree program. Her research interests included fiscal federalism, transportation finance, public school finance and municipal bond markets. In the field of environmental policy, her focus was on climate change, pollution abatement and enforcement regulation and water management in international river systems.
Gamkhar received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park and an M.Phil. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, UT.
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