Posted on 01/26/2026 7:19:14 PM PST by dennisw
The wife of a prominent lawyer was one of six killed in a horror private jet crash on a snowy airport runway.
Tara Arnold, 46, wife of personal injury attorney Kurt Arnold, died along with several of her friends on a girls' trip to Paris.
The Bombardier Challenger 650 business jet went down during takeoff from Bangor International Airport in Maine about 7.45pm on Sunday.
Dramatic footage showed the burning wreckage of the plane upside-down on the runway. Flight data showed it veered right during takeoff and flipped at 175mph.
The FAA earlier on Monday incorrectly said there were eight people on board including one crew member who survived.
Tara, a commercial lawyer with decades of experience, worked at her husband's law firm, Arnold & Itkin, since it was established in 2005.
She and Kurt live in an $11 million mansion in Houston with their two children, Jaxon and Isla.
The top Houston firm, to which the downed plane was registered, is known for defending undocumented migrants.
A page talking up the firm's expertise in aviation accident litigation was quietly removed from its website after the crash.
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What caused this crash during takeoff? The airplane came in upside down, so a major failure in something?
Rest in peace.
Snow/Icing.
“She and Kurt live in an $11 million mansion in Houston”
My my
Gotta love those indentured servants, huh?
Employers pay big to keep them on the plantation
America's elites are at peak looting stage. Even leftist trial lawyers are in on the scam of directing newly printed fiat money and Fed.gov debt into their pockets.
Disgusting.
Girls night out in Paris? Kurt the Kuck?
Deicing efforts were not done thoroughly enough. It was 730PM so its even more difficult to see the deicing ops. Just my opinion.
Does Kurt cash in her life insurance policy for another $10mil?
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Audio from the aircraft’s radio recording, heard by the Daily Mail, included a voice saying ‘let there be light’ minutes before the crash.
How sad that they couldn’t postpone their girl’s trip to Paris by a few days/weeks rather than insist on taking off in this storm.
ICE is a killer, I’m tellin’ ya.
Abolish ICE.
And why was it so important to be on a charter flight during historically bad weather? Some people think that they are Gods in their own universes. Time, gravity, and icy weather are no oneâs friends.
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She and Kurt live in an $11 million mansion in Houston with their two children, Jaxon and Isla.
The top Houston firm, to which the downed plane was registered, is known for defending undocumented migrants.
A page talking up the firm’s expertise in aviation accident litigation was quietly removed from its website after the crash.
Tara and her friends flew in from Houston on Sunday, landing at 6.09pm, for refueling and ice removal before heading across the Atlantic Ocean.
This is a suspicious incident.
Ole Kurt is gonna get himself a 26 year old replacement.
Ice on the wings. This will be blamed on the pilot.
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Audio from the aircraftâs radio recording, heard by the Daily Mail, included a voice saying âlet there be lightâ minutes before the crash.
How sad that they couldnât postpone their girlâs trip to Paris by a few days/weeks rather than insist on taking off in this storm.
I suspect that they did not anticipate that they were heading into a major storm when the left Houston. But the fastest way to Paris is via Bangor ME (which is approximately the halfway point where there is a place to landd) and the storm of the year happened to be bearing down on the East Coast.
The Ice of Texas
was upon them.
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