Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church remembers staff member killed in Maine plane crash: 'Beautiful spirit'

A unit subordinate of Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church who "possessed a beauteous spirit" was among the six radical killed successful a backstage pitchy clang successful Maine earlier this week, according to the church. 

The Houston, Texas-based religion told The Christian Post that Shawna Collins "was traveling for idiosyncratic concern extracurricular of Lakewood" astatine the clip of the mishap Sunday night. The Paris-bound Bombardier Challenger 600 pitchy had stopped to refuel during airy snow, mild winds and near-zero temperatures arsenic a monolithic wintertime tempest began to scope Bangor, Maine. It past flipped and caught occurrence during departure. 

"We tin corroborate with large sadness that a beloved subordinate of our religion unit and treasured friend, Shawna Collins, was connected the level that crashed successful Maine connected Sunday evening," Lakewood Church told The Christian Post. 

"She was a airy that brightened our days, and she possessed a beauteous tone that lifted everyone she met. We loved Shawna dearly, and we volition miss her much than words tin express. We commune for her full household and connection them our emotion and enactment during this difficult time," it added. 

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Jacob Hosmer, Shawna Collins and Tara Arnold were 3 victims identified successful a level clang successful Maine. (Jacob Hosmer/Facebook; Shawna Collins/Instagram; Kurt Arnold/Facebook)

The pitchy was registered to a spouse of idiosyncratic wounded instrumentality steadfast Arnold and Itkin Trial Lawyers successful Houston. Tara Arnold, an lawyer astatine the steadfast and woman of founding spouse Kurt Arnold, and Hawaii-based cook Nick Mastrascusa were besides killed successful the crash, according to reports.  

Mastrascusa reportedly worked for Beyond, a luxury question institution founded by the Arnolds. Beyond’s website besides lists Shawna Collins arsenic being its "luxury lawsuit decorator and acquisition curator." 

The manager of Bangor International Airport said Wednesday that the national probe into the clang has been hampered by utmost weather, including heavy snowfall that has blanketed the country and covered the burned wreckage.

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Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are seen investigating a level clang astatine Bangor International Airport Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026 successful Bangor, Maine. (Linda Coan O'Kresik/The Bangor Daily News via AP)

The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration joined authorities and section authorities astatine the scene and recovered the cockpit dependable and information recorders for analysis. The authorities aesculapian examiner’s office also was there to region the bodies of the victims and formally identify them. The airdrome volition stay closed until astatine slightest 9 a.m. Thursday, manager Jose Saavedra said, according to The Associated Press. 

Prior to the jet’s departure, different level had conscionable aborted takeoff, radioing to the operation that they chose not to alert due to the fact that visibility wasn’t great and they would request much de-icing, the AP besides reported. 

The snowfall would yet accumulate to astir 9.5 inches, but it was lone opening astatine the clip of the crash.

A GoFundMe leafage identified Nick Mastrascusa arsenic 1 of the victims of a level clang successful Maine implicit the weekend. (GoFundMe)

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The Bombardier Challenger 600 had gone done a modular de-icing process before proceeding to the runway, Saavedra said. 

Fox News Digital’s Alexandra Koch and The Associated Press contributed to this report.