Plane crash victim Adina Azarian was adopted by Trump donors at age 40

The Hamptons realtor killed alongside her toddler in a “ghost plane’’ crash was adopted at the age of 40 by notable Trump donors — who said she reminded them of their daughter who had died in a tragic scuba diving accident almost 30 years ago.

Adina Azarian, a top longtime New York real-estate agent, and her two-year-old daughter Aria were two of four people killed when a private jet crashed in rural Virginia on Sunday, her adoptive father John Rumpel confirmed.

Rumpel, a Florida business magnate and GOP donor who gave $250,000 to Trump’s failed 2020 re-election campaign said that Azarian, 49, and his first daughter Victoria had “the same fire in their bellies.”

“They were loving, caring children,” Rumpel told The Washington Post. “We had no one else, and we loved her.”

Rumpel and his wife Barbara also lost their daughter Victoria, 19, who was killed in a tragic scuba diving accident in 1994, The Washington Post reported.

He and Barbara, an executive committee member of the National Rifle Association’s Women’s Leadership Forum, were reportedly reminded of their first daughter when they got to know Azarian. The couple adopted Azarian, 49, nine years ago.

Rumpel retired from flying 30 years ago but owned the doomed Cessna jet to keep his family close following Victoria’s death, he told the paper.

Her adoptive father echoed sentiments expressed by Azarian’s friends, who told The Post she struggled for years, suffering through miscarriages and failed rounds of in-vitro fertilization before she conceived her “miracle baby.”

Azarian wrote in a 2020 Facebook post that being a mother was the “greatest honor of my life” after Aria’s birth.

She said she hoped by sharing her journey her story could serve “as a source of inspiration for any woman going through the same struggles with infertility or simply with the decision to create your own family on your own terms.”

While her adoptive parents donated heavily to GOP causes, including the Trump Victory PAC in 2020, Azarian kept herself out of politics, one of her friends told The Post.

On Sunday, the Cessna jet owned by Rumpel departed from Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Tennessee and was headed for Long Island MacArthur Airport in New York, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The plane had reached the New York area before turning toward Virginia, according to the flight-tracking website Flight Aware, nearing restricted airspace over the nation’s capital.

After the plane entered a restricted zone and with no response from the pilot, two F-16s were deployed and were authorized to travel at supersonic speeds, causing the sonic boom that was heard across the capital and neighboring communities in Maryland and Virginia.

After flying over DC, the “ghost plane” — a term used in situations including when the pilot loses consciousness and the aircraft continues to fly — continued its chaotic descent.

Aviation experts believe there was a catastrophic loss of oxygen in the plane that rendered the pilot and passengers incapacitated.

In addition to Azarian and her daughter, the plane’s pilot Jeff Hefner and their nanny, who has not been identified, were aboard the doomed flight.

The plane dropped over 30,000 feet per minute before crashing, in what first responders believe was likely a near-nosedive.

The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are currently investigating the cause of the incident, with officials noting that it would have a preliminary report ready within three weeks.