A Cayman Islands pastor and his daughter perished when their humanitarian aircraft plummeted into a Florida lake minutes after takeoff on Monday morning. Alexander Wurm, 53, and Serena Wurm, 22, were transporting relief materials to Jamaica aboard a Beech B100 King Air that crashed in Coral Springs around 10:20 a.m., scattering wreckage across residential properties before sinking into a pond.
The father-daughter pair had embarked on their third aid mission since Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica, loading the plane with generators, medical equipment, solar technology, and satellite communications systems. Ignite the Fire Cayman founder Wurm had completed two earlier flights despite lacking official landing clearance from Jamaican aviation authorities, who confirmed receiving an incomplete permit application on November 10.
Dive teams recovered no intact fuselage sections from the man-made body of water. Federal investigators are examining the incident alongside local emergency services. Wurm leaves behind his wife, Candace, and two other children.
The father-daughter pair had embarked on their third aid mission since Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica, loading the plane with generators, medical equipment, solar technology, and satellite communications systems. Ignite the Fire Cayman founder Wurm had completed two earlier flights despite lacking official landing clearance from Jamaican aviation authorities, who confirmed receiving an incomplete permit application on November 10.
Dive teams recovered no intact fuselage sections from the man-made body of water. Federal investigators are examining the incident alongside local emergency services. Wurm leaves behind his wife, Candace, and two other children.
