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>>/122311/ --excerpt-- A jet that experienced deadly turbulence may have had 'trim issues,' the NTSB says The Associated Press A Bombardier Challenger 300 diverted March 3 to Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., after experiencing turbulence in flight. HARTFORD, Conn. — A business jet may have experienced problems with its stability before encountering turbulence or some other roughness that caused the death of a passenger who served in prominent posts in two presidential administrations, officials said Monday. The person who died, identified as 55-year-old Dana Hyde of Cabin John, Maryland, was brought to a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, where she was later pronounced dead, Connecticut State Police said Monday. The chief medical examiner's office found that she died from blunt-force injuries. The jet's owner, Conexon, based in Kansas City, Missouri, confirmed in an email that Hyde was the wife of a company partner, Jonathan Chambers, who was also on the plane with his son. Neither father nor son were hurt, the company said. Hyde served as counsel for the 9/11 Commission, formally known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, and other posts during a career in Washington, D.C., according to her LinkedIn page. She served as a special assistant to the president for cabinet affairs and a special assistant to the deputy U.S. attorney general during President Bill Clinton's administration, and as a senior policy adviser at the State Department and associate director at the Office of Management and Budget during President Barack Obama's administration, the LinkedIn site indicates. Turbulence is unstable air in the atmosphere, which continues to be a cause for injury for airline passengers despite safety improvements. But deaths from turbulence are extremely rare. There were 30 injures, but no deaths, from 2009 to 2020, the FAA said in December. (photo) Dana Hyde, right, then CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, participates in 2014 in the Ghana Compact signing ceremony at the State Department in Washington. J. Scott Applewhite/AP https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161627652/dana-hyde-death-business-jet-turbulence-ntsb-trim-issues