![]() ![]() Previously, he managed All Vegetation Services Inc. Prior to forming ARS, Vinnie served as VP of Operations for Balfour Beatty Rail in Jacksonville. Since launching in Jacksonville, the company has expanded to locations in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and has more than 130 employees. Vinnie co-founded ARS in 2006, and had lead responsibility for securing contracts for the firm, making strategic decisions, and driving growth. For everyone, please keep Vinnie's and Patsy's family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.īelow is some information on viewings, funeral arrangements, and contact info:įriday, October 12 at the Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home (, 90)įamily and friends will be received after the services at: Nobody else was injured during the crash.įor all of you who were friends and colleagues of Vinnie and Patsy, you have my deepest condolences. It may never be precisely known, but as there was likely a catastrophic failure of the plane while it was still in the air and there is a school (the West Gary Lighthouse Charter School) in the flight path that had 495 children between kindergarten and 7th grade in session at the time, the pilot's final action may have been to heroically steer the plane just southwest of the school into the wooded area of Brunswick Park. There is no official information yet about what happened to cause the plane to crash and investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are working the case, but multiple witnesses reported that they heard either a small explosion or some sort of engine failure on the plane while it was still in the air. Augustine on Tuesday night October 2 for Smyrna, TN, then took off from Smyrna, TN at 9:25am Wednesday morning October 3 en route for Gary, but crashed at 11:18am about 2 miles southeast of the Gary airport. ![]() The plane left from Northeast Florida Regional Airport in St. ![]() Patsy and Vinnie were the only two people on board. The plane was a 4 seat Cirrus SR-22, which was owned by Patsy through his company Gandy Air LLC. Vinnie Vaccarello (NRC Board Member, Co-President of All Railroad Services Corp.) and Patsy Crisafi (NRC Safety Committee Member, Executive Vice President of Roadway Worker Training, Inc.) were killed in a small plane crash near the Gary, Indiana airport last week, on Wednesday, October 3. ![]()
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