On the evening of December 29, 2016, 14-year-old Andrew Thomas Fleming boarded a private Cessna Citation 525 at Burke Lakefront Airport after a Cleveland Cavaliers game. He was travelling with his parents, John and Suzanne Fleming, his older brother John Robert Jack Fleming, family friend Brian Casey, and Casey’s daughter Megan. The flight was bound for the Ohio State University airport but vanished from radar a few minutes after takeoff, with last contact two miles from the airport over Lake Erie.

Search and recovery teams worked in difficult winter conditions. Some victims were recovered and identified, including Andrew’s father, his brother Jack, and Brian Casey. Andrew, his mother Suzanne, and Megan Casey were never found and are considered lost or injured and presumed to have perished. The National Transportation Safety Board later cited pilot spatial disorientation and fatigue as the probable cause of the crash. Andrew was a student at the Ohio State School for the Blind who competed in track, swim, Miracle League baseball, and the Special Olympics.