CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) - A Corpus Christi woman is killed in a Colorado plane crash over the weekend. Aboard the plane, the Humpal family, Scott, his wife Gaby and their children, along with their pilot.
The plane went down Sunday afternoon during a snowstorm in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The crash killed Gaby and the pilot, Hans Vandervlught, of Refugio and left Gaby's daughter with critical injuries.
Michael Gibson spoke with one of Scott Humpal's longtime friends and co-worker. Everyone we spoke with said they just couldn't believe that the Humpal family had been in a plane crash. One that killed Mrs. Humpal and has the rest of the family in the hospital.
"It's devastating, the staff including myself we're just in shock you read stories like this happening to other people, but when it happens to people you know it takes the breath out of you," says Russell Hanks the co-director at Humpal Physical Therapy.
Hanks says he's known his Scott Humpal and his family for 16 years. Hanks along with the other employees at the business are wearing a black ribbon in memory of Gaby Humpal.
She and her husband along with their three children were passengers on the families plane heading to Colorado for a ski trip. Their plane went down in a snow storm and crashed just short of the runway in Hayden, Colorado.
Scott Humpal and his two sons remain in the hospital. Mr. Humpal has been using Facebook to update everyone back home on the condition of his surviving family members. His daughter, Sara is in critical condition and had to be air lifted to a children's hospital in Denver.
"I think the tennis community very involved with and just a special woman, involved in her church and very well liked by everyone that knew her it will leave a big hole to not have her here any longer I'm still trying to search for what you say after something like this," says Hanks.
Right now, a number of employees and family members have flown up to Colorado to help out in anyway they can. Sunday, Sara underwent surgery to repair two fractures to her leg.
Monday, she was to be operated on again as doctors needed to do work to areas of the pelvis and spine.
Scott Humpal and his two sons are suffering from back, neck and rib pain.
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