The pilots landed in the pre-dawn hours of July 4 on coal magnate Christopher Cline’s private Big Grand Cay in the Bahamas and soon set off on their medical run with five more passengers. Within minutes, the 15-passenger Agusta SpA AW139 crashed, killing all seven on board.

Cline, a West Virginia mining magnate, died July 4, 2019, when a helicopter he was riding in crashed shortly after takeoff from his private island, Big Grand Cay, in the Bahamas. The six others on...

West Virginia coal billionaire and philanthropist Chris Cline and six others died in a helicopter crash near the Bahamas on Thursday, that state’s governor said. “Today we lost a WV superstar and I...

Chris Cline grew up in a coal family – his father and grandfather worked at mines. He started working as an underground miner in West Virginia in 1980 at age 22, and a decade later founded his...

Chris Cline, a billionaire coal executive and an ex-boyfriend of pregnant model Elin Nordegren, died in a helicopter crash in the Bahamas on Thursday, July 4, just hours before his 61st birthday....

West Virginia coal tycoon Chris Cline was rushing his 22-year-old daughter to a Florida hospital for a medical emergency when their helicopter plunged into waters off the Bahamas, killing all...

BECKLEY — Less than an hour before 22-year-old Beckley resident Delaney Wykle volunteered to board billionaire Chris Cline’s helicopter at his private island in the Bahamas to help two sick...

Billionaire coal executive Chris Cline passed away this week in a tragic helicopter accident, but many were left scratching their heads over his past relationship with Elin Nordegren. After her divorce from Tiger Woods, Cline was Nordegren's first serious romance, yet they kept their tryst out of the public eye.

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