US entrepreneur who flew to area with actor William Shatner dies in airplane crash

Medical analysis software program mogul 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 airplane crash in New Jersey, state police stated on Friday.
The airplane 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 plane, a single-engine Cessna 172, went down in a wooded space of a state park close to Lake Kemah, New Jersey, about 40 minutes earlier than sundown, in line with the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the crash.
No different official particulars surrounding the circumstances of the accident had been instantly obtainable.
“Such a tragic loss. Warm and full of life, Glen made us laugh and lit up the room. He was a visionary, and an innovator – a true leader,” Bezos, Blue Origin’s founder and government chairman of on-line retail large Amazon.com, stated on Twitter, including he was “heartbroken”.

(2/2) Our deepest sympathies are together with his companion, Leah, and all his family members. The world misplaced you too quickly, Glen.
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 12, 2021
De Vries, an instrument-rated personal 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 identified for his function as Captain James T. Kirk on the unique Sixties tv present “Star Trek.” The Oct. 13 launch made Shatner the oldest individual 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, in line with 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.