Trump donor from West Virginia among 7 Americans killed in copter crash in Bahamas, officials say

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https://www.foxnews.com/world/west-virginia-coal-tycoon-trump-donor-dies-with-six-other-americans-in-bahamas-plane-crash-on-fourth-of-july-reports
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A billionaire coal executive from West Virginia was among seven Americans killed in a helicopter crash near the Bahamas while traveling back to Florida on the Fourth of July, reports said.

Chris Cline, who was also a donor to President Trump, died a day before his 61st birthday, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice told the Register-Herald, a newspaper in Beckley, W. Va.

Cline's daughter Kamie Conover was also among those killed, according to reports.

The helicopter was heading to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., when it crashed about two miles off the coast of Grand Cay island in the Bahamas, according to reports. The three women and four men aboard were all Americans, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement without releasing the names of the victims.

Cline made his fortune revamping Illinois’ coal industry, Bloomberg reported. Born in a West Virginia town of only 200 residents, Cline began working as a miner at age 22. He founded the Cline Group to mine coal in the hills of Appalachia before starting Foresight Energy LP, a joint venture with Robert Murray’s Murray Energy Corp., to expand into Illinois and Missouri. Foresight Energy LP was worth $2.6 billion at its peak.

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1. Even the super wealthy can't

buy their way out, when dr death comes calling.
Proof that wealth is not the be all and end all of everything

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2. That was my first thought

All that coal money and all those coal deaths couldn't save him, his daughter and the others.

They should have taken the tickets to the rain parade.