KurdistanObserver.com Six Members Of A Kurdish Family Killed In A Crash, CA BY JAMES BURGER, Californian staff writer e-mail: jburger@bakersfield.com Sunday, Sep 2 2007 Adam Pasori, 51, was a Santa Monica businessman who loved to fly. His Labor Day weekend flight to Kern Valley Airport on Lake Isabella was supposed to kick off a relaxing, end-of-the-summer camping weekend for Pasori, his new wife, a brother, a sister and her two children. But the flight ended in fiery tragedy Friday when Pasori's Lancair Columbia 400 crashed just west of the airport. "He loved his plane," said his brother, Kani Xulam, on Sunday. "We are still shocked. He was a careful person. He was an engineer by training." Xulam said the other victims of the crash were Sibel Pasori, 32, who had just married Adam Pasori in June, Adam's brother David Pasori, 37, his sister Sipan Hamvan, 44, and her two children: daughter Meryem, 2 years old, and son Nesrin, two months old. The family were Kurdish and had emigrated from Turkey. Adam Pasori had come to the United States in 1972 as a high school exchange student. He fell in love with the United States and, after finishing his schooling in Turkey, returned to study aerospace engineering at Penn State, Xulam said. He owned a real estate development business in the Los Angeles area. The call of the sky had always been strong for Adam Pasori, Xulam said. "As a young boy had wanted to build his own helicopter," Xulam said. "Of course, that didn't happen in the mountains of Kurdistan." But Pasori fulfilled his dream in California. "My older brother was a pilot. He'd been flying for the last three years," Xulam said. But it was his younger brother, David Pasori, who found Kern Valley Airport and Lake Isabella on a previous trip through the area, Xulam said. The mountains and the clear water of the lake reminded the younger Pasori of Kurdistan and the family's home there. "They've been (excited) for this trip since July," Xulam said, "They were going to come back rejuvenated for the new year." The fatal crash happened just before 6 p.m. Friday. Witnesses reported seeing Pasori's plane attempt a landing and then try to turn around for another attempt. Thomas Little, an air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, told The Californian previously that Pasori seemed to have lost control of the airplane for an undisclosed reason. An investigation by the Transportation Safety Board is continuing and a preliminary report on the cause of the crash may be released this week.       Copyright © 2002, Kurdistan Observer