{"id":22447,"date":"2026-06-17T02:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/indian-techie-sai-karthik-varma-datla-among-12-people-killed-in-missouri-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T02:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:51:05","slug":"indian-techie-sai-karthik-varma-datla-among-12-people-killed-in-missouri-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/indian-techie-sai-karthik-varma-datla-among-12-people-killed-in-missouri-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian techie Sai Karthik Varma Datla among 12 people killed in Missouri plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131781385,imgsize-84072,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/an-indian-techie-is-one-of-the-12-victims-of-a-missouri-plane-crash-that-took-place-on-sunday.jpg\" alt=\"Indian techie Sai Karthik Varma Datla among 12 people killed in Missouri plane crash\" title=\"An Indian techie is one of the 12 victims of a Missouri plane crash that took place on Sunday.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"An Indian techie is one of the 12 victims of a Missouri plane crash that took place on Sunday.\">An Indian techie is one of the 12 victims of a Missouri plane crash that took place on Sunday.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An Indian techie was among the 12 victims of the horrific plane crash that took place on Sunday morning in Missouri. In the official list released by the Bates CountyCoroner&#8217;s Office on Tuesday afternoon, Sai Karthik Varma Datla was identified as a 24-year-old man from India.<!-- --> The victims, including experienced skydivers, were flying in a 2010 Pacific Aerospace 750XL, which crashed shortly after taking off from Butler Memorial Airport just before 11:30 a.m. Sunday. The plane turned around for an unknown reason before losing control, crashing into a field on airport property and catching fire, killing everyone on board.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Some family members of the victims witnessed the deadly crash. Records show that the aircraft \u2014 with tail number N221BN \u2014 was registered to a Tennessee-based company known as SkyHi Aero LLC. The aircraft was also once used by a Chattanooga skydiving company before being operated by Skydive Kansas City, which rents space at the Butler airport. Skydive Kansas City, which coordinated the flight Sunday, released a statement following the crash:<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>\u201cThis is a devastating loss for everyone connected to Skydive Kansas City and for the wider skydiving community. <!-- -->Our deepest sympathies are with the families, friends, and loved ones of all who were lost.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>According to the Bates County Department of Emergency Management, the aircraft, a Pacific Aerospace P750XL, was carrying nine experienced skydivers, two tandem jumpers and a pilot. Sunday&#8217;s crash was considered one of the deadliest skydiving incidents in the US in decades.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Full list of victims<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Kurt John Roy- 69-year-old from Windber, Pennsylvania<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>Michael R. Shanahan- 54-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>David Hershberger- 54-year-old from Liberty, Missouri.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Sai Karthik Varma Datla- 24-year-old from India<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Matthew Swope- 39-year-old from Independence, Missouri<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>Dustin McKinney- 44-year-old from Stilwell, Kansas<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>Jennifer L. Sharp- 55-year-old from Grand Junction, Colorado<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>Blake Thacker- 25-year-old from Olathe, Kansas<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>Marcus Miller- 30-year-old from Lawrence, Kansas<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/>Nicholas Nash- 40-year-old from Harrisonville, Missouri<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/>William Fischer- 23-year-old from De Soto, Kansas<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"38\"\/>Dane Cordes- 26-year-old from Richmond, Missouri<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"40\"\/>Sai Karthik Varma Datla was from Andhra Pradesh, India. He came to the US for higher education and completed his studies at the University of Central Missouri. He was working at AdventHealth and went for a fun skydiving experience on Sunday.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/indian-techie-sai-karthik-varma-datla-among-12-people-killed-in-missouri-plane-crash\/articleshow\/131781373.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian techie is one of the 12 victims of a Missouri plane crash that took place on Sunday. An Indian techie was among the 12 victims of the horrific plane crash that took place on Sunday morning in Missouri. In the official list released by the Bates CountyCoroner&#8217;s Office on Tuesday afternoon, Sai Karthik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}