‘They All Had Such a Positive Energy:’ School Mourns Family Killed in Plane Crash

Emergency officials work the scene of a fatal small plane crash alongside Interstate 40 near mile marker 202, in Nashville, Tenn. on March 4, 2024. The Canadian Press/AP George Walker IV

A private school north of Toronto is expressing “profound sadness and grief” as it mourns a family of five who died in a plane crash in Nashville.

Forty-three-year-old Victor Dotsenko, his 39-year-old wife Rimma Dotsenko and their three children, 12-year-old David, 10-year-old Adam and seven-year-old Emma, were killed on Mar 4 as a single-engine plane crashed alongside a highway.