Medical Activist and Rockefeller Scion Killed in Plane Crash
June 16, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
Richard Rockefeller, a former leader of the medical aid charity Doctors Without Borders and son of the billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller, died Friday when a small plane he was piloting crashed just after takeoff, reports The New York Times.
The 65-year-old physician was the only person on board the craft, which was reported to have gone down within 15 minutes of taking off in dense fog and rain from Westchester County Airport in New York. He was flying home to Maine after a trip to Mount Pleasant, N.Y., to visit his father, who turned 99 last week.
Dr. Rockefeller chaired the U.S. advisory board of Doctors Without Borders from 1989 until 2010 and was a past president of the Rockefeller Family Fund.
