Neurosurgeon, Pulmonologist Among those Killed in Plane Crash

Photo: Dr. Tausif Rehman (left), Dr. Ali Kanchwala (center), Dr. Maria Javaid (right) were identified as the victims in the crash.

The names of the three people killed when a small plane crashed in Palos Hills Sunday have been released.

Pulmonologist Dr. Ali Kanchwala and neurosurgeon Dr. Tausif Rehman were killed, along with Kanchwala’s wife, Dr. Maria Javaid. The doctors worked at Stromont-Vail Healthcare in Kansas.

The plane went down around 10:40 p.m. Sunday, just minutes after taking off from Midway Airport. Early details indicate that the plane appears to have fallen from the sky in a “near-vertical attitude”—close to a nosedive.

“There was no distress call,” said National Transportation Safety Board Investigator John Brannen, on the scene at a press conference Monday. “It simply dropped off the radar.”