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A New York couple is in mourning after their only childdied in a plane crashin Queensland, Australia, over the weekend.
“He was so excited to go to be able to use the camera that he had worked on, and to be in Australia, doing something to help the Australian people,” his mother told the paper.
The Boston resident had a passion for photography and the outdoors, those who knew him said, and shared his enthusiasm for bothvia his Instagram account,which featured the handle “Gowithwill.”
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“They’d observed a plane go down, and then they observed a plume of smoke,” Superintendent Tom Armitt told reporters, per the newspaper.
Halfway around the world, Joe told Boston.com that he had a feeling that something was wrong when he saw on his own phone tracker that his son’s phone had not moved from a location for many hours, just after Will had texted him that he was boarding a plane.
“Father’s intuition told me something terrible had happened,” he told the outlet. A few hours later, police officers arrived at his home in Dix Hills, Long Island, to break the tragic news.
Now, Denise and Joe are working to bring back their son’s remains and have launched aGoFundMeto help with their efforts. More than $80,000 has been raised as of Wednesday afternoon.
“He could light up any room that he walked into,” his mother told theGlobeabout her son. “He made friends so easily. He was so kind.” She added, “He was the joy of our lives.”
source: people.com
