American actor Christian Klepser, 51, who went by the stage name Christian Oliver, who was killed in a Caribbean plane crash had posted an eerie final message on social media just days earlier.
'Greetings from somewhere in paradise! To community and love… 2024 here we come!'
The family - mother Jessica and Christian Oliver, 51, with their two daughters, Madita, 12 and Annik, 10
Cornell Campbell, who witnessed the crash, told iWitness that the plane drew his attention because of sounds coming from the aircraft that suggested something was wrong.
'The sound of the plane, the engine, the propeller. Everything shut off the first time. So, I told my friend, 'That plane is going to crash.' But the plane kicked up back again like it built back power,' he said.
Campbell explained that the plane regained power but had lost altitude during the initial failure.
As the pilot attempted to correct the dive, the power appeared to go again and it 'just dived down.'
'But when it sinking, something went 'Bouff!' in the water and that is why I said it exploded. So that is the only thing I heard when the plane was sinking. It went 'Bouff!' under the water,' Campbell said.
Another witness, Tyrone Durham, a retired coast guard officer described his view of what happened to iWitness.
'It seems as though the power cut out or the engine failed and then I came out from under the tree and looked at the plane.
'It seems as though it was turning to head back to the airport but then with the wind, because I don't think it had reached the [cruising] altitude so it was apparently going back to the airport,' he said.
'That's when the wind took control of it and it came down and plunged into the water.'
According to his LinkedIn page, Sachs operated a diving business in Bequia alongside his wife, Cathy. He was a native of Springfield, New Jersey, who had been living in the Caribbean for close to 40 years.
One unnamed witness told iWitness that Sachs had taught him how to scuba dive around five years ago. He also used to work for the pilot calling him a 'good friend, close to the family.
The cause of the plane crash remains under investigation.
American actor Christian Klepser, 51, who went by the stage name Christian Oliver, who was killed in a Caribbean plane crash on Thursday posted an eerie final message on social media just days earlier.
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