Yesterday three employees of Tesla Motors were killed in a light twin crash. While the news articles are short of details it appears some of their engineering staff was among them.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-plane-crash18-2010feb18,0,6883599.story

I know that everybody on this site has followed Tesla with interest and has always wished them success and continues to do so. This will be tough for a small company with close knit employees.