By james art 
The pilot on a private jet, which was killed in a Monday crash at Scotsdale Airport, was identified by police like Joey Vitoski, 78.
“Honestly, with all my heart, I believe that the reason these other passengers are alive – this is because of how he did yesterday,” said Jana Sherzer, daughter of Vitoski, on Tuesday.
In a telephone interview with the Republic of Arizona on Tuesday night, Sherzer said her father, who had lived in Texas, has been flying for 60 years. He began when he joined the US marine infantry, piloting helicopters before moving on to jets.
Vitosky has not foreseen a career in the sky, said Sherzer, who lives in Mississippi. He teaches to become an engineer before he started flying for the military and serving several tours in Vietnam.
After leaving the Marines, Vitosky had an eclectic flying career, Sherzer said. He flies people like Jesse Jackson, Maureen Reagan and owners of oil companies. He flies with trips to extract parts for companies such as FedEx, and also fly patients with transplantation waiting for life -saving operations.
“That’s a lot of things that can happen on a private jet,” Sherzer said. “Many rich people, but he had many people who needed something immediately.”
Sherzer said her father flew the greater part of his family members at one point, including Shercer and her two brothers.
“We were all grown up to travel with my father when we succeeded – when there was a place on the plane and the passengers didn’t mind going,” she said.
Sherzer said she expects some people to make assumptions about her father based on his age. She said he remained an extremely capable pilot, noting that her grandparents and grandparents and grandparents on his side of the family lived well in the 1990s.
He was the epitome of health, Sherzer said. “Like, nothing wrong. His vision was perfect – better than 20/20 vision. “
Sherzer said she and her father’s other passengers feel safe when he was in the cockpit.
While many 78-year-old children spend time enjoying their retirement, Sherzer said her father fell in love with flying.
“Instead, you know, retire and do nothing, he did it literally until the day he died,” she said.
Vitosky has survived three children and two grandchildren, Sherzer said.
What happened at the Airport in Scottsdale?
Around 2:30 pm on Monday, private jets collided on the track after the landing equipment failed at Learjet 35A, arriving from Austin, Texas, according to airport officials.
The aircraft, which had two pilots, including Vitosky, and two passengers on board, diverted from the track and hit a Gulfstream parked aircraft with one man on board. Two people were critically injured. A third was injured, but not critical.
Air trafficking controllers redirect planes after collision, according to audio records. A controller can be heard that tells Pilot to maintain altitude and “go”.
“We just had an emergency,” the controller says.
The National Transport Safety Council was involved in the investigation.
The runway at Scottsdale airport opened again shortly before 9:00 pm on Monday.
What do we know about people who have been hurt?
Rain Hannah Andreeni, 43 -year -old, is the only person on board aircraft that is publicly identified except Vitos.
Andreeni is the girlfriend of Mötley Crüe leading singer Vince Neal. Neil owns Learjet, according to the filing to the Secretary of State of Wyoming. He was not aboard, according to the legal representative of vocalist Warrick Robinson IV, who published a statement about the Instagram account of the group.
Andreani’s presence on the plane was confirmed on Tuesday by CNN by Mötley Crüe manager, Alan Kovak. Kovac said Andreeni was with a friend and they were injured, according to CNN.
Crash is the latest in a series of clashes on an airplane
The crash on Monday came after 10 people were killed in a plane crash near Nome, Alaska, on February 6th. Two catastrophes, one in Philadelphia and the other in Washington, Colombia, happened in January, killing over 70 people.
The last fatal catastrophe at Scottsdale airport was in 2018. A pilot, a student pilot and four passengers were killed after the plane crashed shortly after the departure.
Scotsdale Airport is “one of the busiest single-run airports in the country”, according to Scottsdale, a non-profit target that works with Scottsdale and Paradise Valley to market the tourism area. The airport registers over 133,000 take -offs and landings each year, according to the group.
FAA records show that the airport runs are evaluated in good condition and 8 249 feet were measured – about a mile and a half – length.
NTSB lists 15 incidents with fatal aircraft in the area of Scottsdale and four incidents involving a serious injury, with the worst return to the 70s.
Two of the serious injuries involved students of the students, one included a pilot who has a heavy landing after the airplane engine lost power and the other included a pilot who has forced landing after wrongly assessing his height and clearance.
(This story was updated to add new information.)
I passed Arshad from USA Today, Craig Shoup and Melonee Hurt from Tennessee and Catherine Reagor of the Arizona Republic contributed to this article.