{"id":150253,"date":"2026-02-04T06:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/150253\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:17:35","slug":"victims-identified-after-houston-linked-plane-crashes-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/150253\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims identified after Houston-linked plane crashes in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">BANGOR, Maine &#8211; Officials in Maine have released the identities of four people who died when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/maine-plane-crash-victim-identified-lakewood-church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">plane linked to a Houston law firm<\/a> crashed at Bangor International Airport last month.<\/p>\n<p>   Plane crash victims identified <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to the Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the crash victims were identified as:<\/p>\n<p>  Tara Arnold, 46, of TexasJacob Hosmer, 47, of TexasShelby Kuyawa, 34, of HawaiiJorden Reidel, 33, of Texas <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to a news release from the Bangor Police Department, the medical examiner\u2019s office is still working to positively identify the other two people who died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Those two victims\u2019 identities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/maine-plane-crash-victim-identified-lakewood-church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">were previously confirmed to FOX 26<\/a> as Nick Mastrascusa and Shawna Collins.<\/p>\n<p> Deadly plane crash in Maine <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The Bombardier Challenger 600 flipped over and burned on takeoff at Bangor International Airport around 7:45 p.m. Jan. 25.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The plane that crashed had just landed at Bangor from Houston at 6:09 p.m., according to FlightRadar24.com.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The international airport in Bangor, about 200 miles north of Boston, is one of the closest in the U.S. to Europe and is often used to refuel private jets flying overseas. The Bombardier was headed for France when it crashed.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The jet was registered to a corporation that shares the same address in Houston as the personal injury law firm Arnold and Itkin Trial Lawyers, and one of the law firm\u2019s founding partners is listed as the registered agent for the company that owns the plane.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The crash remains under investigation by the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board. A preliminary report outlining the facts of the crash should be released in about a month, but the final version likely won\u2019t be published for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Bangor Police Department, the Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, previous FOX 26 reporting and the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/me\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maine<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGOR, Maine &#8211; Officials in Maine have released the identities of four people who died when a plane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,48177,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-150253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-me","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}