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Kin: NY plane crash victims' twins told of death

August 16, 2008
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RIVERHEAD, N.Y.—A family member says a Long Island couple's newly orphaned twin toddlers are adjusting well after being told of their parents' death in a plane crash this week.

A cousin said Friday that 4-year-old Amanda and Bobby Gregory took it "really well" when relatives and their nursery school teacher eventually let them know about Tuesday's accident.

The family initially held off telling the children to consult a counselor.

Parents Donna and Robert Gregory were on a charity flight to Boston, where he was scheduled for cancer treatment.

The plane went down in a shopping plaza parking lot in Easton, Mass.

The pilot, 65-year-old Joseph Baker of Brookfield, Conn., also was killed. He was a volunteer pilot for the charity group Angel Flight Northeast.

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