UPDATE | VentureBeat reports Tesla Motors employees Doug Bourn (see below the fold), Brian Finn and Andrew Ingram were killed when when the small twin-engine plane, owned by Mr. Bourn, crashed shortly after takingoff from the Palo Alto airport.
According to his Linkedin profile Mr. Finn’s was a senior manager – interactive electronics; Mr. Ingram’s Linkedin page states that he was an electrical engineer. Mr. Bourn, we reported earlier, was a senior engineer.
A spokeswoman for the San Mateo County Coroner told GER that the three Tesla Motors employees that died yesterday when their small twin-engine plane crashed would not be identified today.
The spokeswoman said the names of the victims could be released Friday but she declined to be more specific.
The online edition of the San Jose Mercury News reports that the twin-engine Cessna 310 was registered to Doug Bourn, a senior engineer at Tesla.
The spokeswoman at the Coroner’s office declined to tell GER if Mr. Bourn was in the plane that crashed yesterday.
The plane, which was bound for a Los Angeles-area airport, crashed in foggy weather shortly after takeoff from the Palo Alto, Calif., airport.
Tesla has also not publicly identified the three employees.