美國煤炭大亨克里斯·克萊恩墜機身亡

7名美國人在直升機墜毀事件中喪生，其中包括億萬富翁煤炭大亨。

A billionaire West Virginia coal tycoon was among seven Americans killed in a helicopter crash off the coast of the Bahamas on Thursday evening, according to local officials and reports.

據(jù)當?shù)卣靶侣剤蟮?，周四晚間，一架直升機在巴哈馬群島海岸墜毀，造成7名美國人死亡，其中包括西維吉尼亞州的一位億萬富翁煤炭大亨。

Chris Cline, 61, a former coal miner who turned his Foresight Energy company into a billion-dollar operation in 2015, was killed in the crash at about 5 p.m. local time, the Palm Beach Post reported.

據(jù)《棕櫚灘郵報》報道，現(xiàn)年61歲的克里斯·克萊恩(Chris Cline)于當?shù)貢r間下午5點左右在事故中喪生，他曾是一名煤礦工人，2015年將其遠見能源公司轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)橐患覂r值10億美元的公司。

Cline was also a noted philanthropist in his native West Virginia. The state’s governor, Jim Justice, mourned Cline in a statement on Thursday evening.

克萊恩在他的家鄉(xiāng)西弗吉尼亞州也是一位著名的慈善家。該州州長吉姆賈斯蒂斯(Jim Justice)在周四晚間的一份聲明中哀悼了克萊恩。

“Today we lost a WV superstar and I lost a very close friend,” Justice wrote on Twitter. “Our families go back to the beginning of the Cline empire – Pioneer Fuel. Chris Cline built an empire and on every occasion was always there to give. What a wonderful, loving, and giving man.”

“今天西弗吉尼亞失去了一個超級明星，我失去了一個非常親密的朋友，”賈斯蒂斯在Twitter上寫道“我們的家族可以追溯到克萊恩帝國初期——燃料的先驅(qū)。克里斯·克萊恩建立了一個帝國，在任何場合都樂于奉獻。他是一個多么奇妙、充滿愛心、樂于奉獻的人啊!”

Bahamian officials told The Post the helicopter went down off the coast of Big Cay, killing seven people. The helicopter was en route to Fort Lauderdale, the official said.

巴哈馬官員接受郵報采訪時表示，這架直升機在大礁海岸墜毀，造成7人死亡，直升機當時正在前往勞德代爾堡的途中。

It was not immediately clear who else was on board, and the cause of the crash is under investigation.

目前還不清楚機上還有誰，事故原因正在調(diào)查中。