Dana Hyde, a former employee in the White House, has been named as the woman who passed away on Friday when the private plane she was flying on encountered significant turbulence.
Ms. Hyde, 55, was traveling on a Conexon-owned aircraft from Keene, New Hampshire to Leesburg, Virginia alongside 2 team members and 3 tourists when the aircraft encountered turbulence and was asked to make an emergency landing from outside Hartford, Connecticut.
At Hartford’s Saint Francis Medical Hospital, she was declared dead after being transported there.
Ms. Hyde received legal training and performed in public service in Washington, DC. Throughout her 8 years of service in the Obama administration, she maintained positions at the State Department and Office of Management and Budget.
Before that, Ms. Hydge worked for the 9/11 Commission and was Special Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General under President Bill Clinton.
Ms. Hyde has served as a consultant after quitting the White House and co-chaired the Aspen Institute’s Partnership for an Inclusive Economy for 2 years.
According to a statement from the Institute’s spokesman, Jon Purves, “Dana was a talented and kind colleague who started working closely with programs throughout the organization to develop connections and better our combined efforts during her period with us. “Dana’s relatives and close friends are in the thoughts of our whole Aspen Institute community,” the statement says.
