A private plane that crashed in upstate New York over the weekend was carrying a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished recent student-athletes, bound for a trip to the Catskills for a birthday celebration and the Passover holiday.

A high school senior’s life was plunged into tragedy after her entire family was killed in a private jet crash in upstate New York on Saturday. Anika Groff did not accompany her family on the plane that tragically crashed in Copake,

Karenna Groff, a former MIT soccer player once named the NCAA woman of the year, was one of six people killed in a plane crash.