This morning on Grand Cay island police report seven Americans were killed in a helicopter crash on a flight from Nassau to Ft.Lauderdale. Among them was billionaire Chris Cline a mining entrepreneur and philanthropist. The helicopter went missing after leaving Grand Cay; four women and three men dead.





The helicopter crashed several miles off the coast of Grand Cay. West Virginia's 36th governor Jim Justice quotes that the state lost its "superstar".

Bloomberg reports the crash also killed Cline's attorney Brian Glasser. Chris Cline is best known for reviving the midwest's mines.

He was the founder and chairman of Foresight Energy LP, and the Cline Group worth up to two billion dollars.

'''Mr. Justice says "Today we lost a WV superstar and I lost a very close friend. Our families go back to the beginning of the Cline empire - Pioneer Fuel. Chris Cline built an empire and on every occasion was always there to give. What a wonderful, loving, and giving man'.



