A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

Business Aviation Services Editor

Curt Epstein

NTSB officials are investigating the crash of a Beechcraft King Air B100 that crashed yesterday morning while on climbout from from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (KFXE) in Florida.&nbsp;According to reports, the turboprop twin was headed to Jamaica’s Sangster International Airport (MKJS) in storm-ravaged Montego Bay with a load of emergency relief supplies when it went down in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, killing the two occupants.
The nearly 50-year-old aircraft, registered as N30HG to Nevada-based International Air Services, took off from KFXE at 10:14 a.m. and, according to reports, crashed within minutes in a residential area. It narrowly missed hitting homes and came to rest with its wreckage fully submerged in a man-made pond.
Tracking data from FlightAware shows the aircraft reached a maximum altitude of 4,167 feet before it began a rapid descent.
On October 28, Hurricane Melissa churned ashore in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, the most powerful on record to strike the island. It caused catastrophic damage to areas of the island and killed at least 32 people. Included in the estimated $6 billion of destruction was MKJS, which had its terminal destroyed.

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