When they boarded a small plane bound for upstate New York this past weekend, the six passengers — a pair of close-knit siblings, their parents and partners — were on the cusp of a new chapter in a family life already replete with personal and professional accomplishment.
Karenna Groff, a one-time collegiate soccer star at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was celebrating her 25th birthday with her longtime boyfriend, investment banker James Santoro, to whom she planned to get engaged this summer.
