WASHINGTON — It was expected to be a routine flight to Atlantic City.
New Jersey parking magnate and businessman Lewis Katz—the co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and a former owner of the New Jersey Nets and Devils—had flown with some friends on his private jet to Bedford, Mass., to attend a fundraising event at the Concord home of Richard Goodwin and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, with plans to return the same day.
Once on the ground in Massachusetts, the crew of the Gulfstream G-IV jet—two pilots and a flight attendant—had ordered a couple of large pizzas that were delivered to the aircraft, while they waited for their four passengers to return.