{"id":26276,"date":"2026-07-16T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=26276"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:28:11","slug":"brick-physician-and-family-killed-in-upstate-n-y-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2026\/07\/brick-physician-and-family-killed-in-upstate-n-y-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Physician and Family Killed in Upstate N.Y. Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gabriel Jasper and his daughter, Gabriella M. Hillgrube. (Facebook Photos)<\/p><\/div>\n

A beloved Brick Township physician lost his life in a small plane crash along with family members earlier this week, authorities in upstate New York confirmed.<\/p>\n

Gabriele P. Jasper, owner of Jasper Spine Institute on Brick Boulevard, was piloting a 1976 Piper Aerostar on Monday. The aircraft, according to authorities climbed to about 100-feet after takeoff from Adirondack Regional Airport in Harrietstown, N.Y., before losing communication with the tower. That prompted authorities to begin searching for the Piper \u2013 a twin-engine, propeller-driven airplane \u2013 which was found wrecked in a wooded area a short distance from the airfield.<\/p>\n

Jasper, 70, was killed along with his daughter, Gabriella M. Hillgrube, 33, of Forked River, and Guiliana M. Hillgrube, 2, of Forked River, his granddaughter. Jasper was a Toms River resident.<\/p>\n

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. Generally, NTSB preliminary reports are released within 30 days of a crash, with a final report being released within a year, according to agency policy.<\/p>\n

Jasper, whose practice had existed in Brick for years, was also a well-known and much-beloved member of the Brick Township business community. He was especially known for his love of outdoorsmanship \u2013 specifically fishing, travel and flying.<\/p>\n

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A beloved Brick Township physician lost his life in a small plane crash along with family members earlier this week, authorities in upstate New York confirmed. Gabriele P. Jasper, owner of Jasper Spine Institute on Brick Boulevard, was piloting a 1976 Piper Aerostar on Monday. The aircraft, according to authorities climbed to about 100-feet after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[4484,5619,5618,5620,5304],"class_list":["post-26276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-featured","tag-gabriel-jasper","tag-gabriella-m-hillgrube","tag-jasper-spine-institute","tag-newsbreak"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/jasper.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6PO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26278,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26276\/revisions\/26278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}