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Dotsenko Family, Z”l,
Killed in Nashville Plane
Crash
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 9:37 AM | · 3 Minute Read

Investigators look over a small plane crash

alongside eastbound Interstate 40 at mile marker
202 on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Nashville,
Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee

identified those killed in a fiery small plane crash
next to Interstate 40 last week Monday as a family
of five from King Township in Ontario. The pilot
was Victor Dotsenko, 43, and the passengers
were his wife Rimma, 39, and their three children,
David, 12, Adam, 10, and Emma, 7, Z”l, Metro
Nashville Police said in a news release.

“I was shocked. I couldn’t believe it at first, when I

got the call,” Rabbi Chaim Hildeshaim said in a
telephone interview. The family were members of
the Chabad Russian Center of Thornhill Woods,
he said. He officiated at the couple’s wedding and
counted them as friends.

Victor Dotsenko was “a very, very generous

person, a very, very kind person,” he said, adding
that his wife was also very kind. “They had a
beautiful relationship between them. They were
great parents as well.”

Victor Dotsenko installed windows and when the

synagogue needed new ones, he donated the
entire installation, Hildeshaim said. The family
often came to the rabbi’s home and Victor
Dotsenko would come by the synagogue and
pray together with him.

“I would ask people to do a good deed in their

memory, an act of kindness … in memory of this
family, these beautiful five precious souls,” he
said.

The Mayor of King Township, where the family

lived, released a statement calling the deaths “a
heartbreaking and devastating loss for our tight-
knit community.”

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