( CNN ) -- A California entrepreneur is helping salvage the dream of a father and son from Indiana who died trying to pilot a plane around the world in a record-breaking quest for charity . Entrepreneur Ashar Aziz has donated the remaining half of the $ 1 million Babar Suleman and his 17-year-old son Haris were hoping to raise for a Pakistan charity that helps poor children go to school . The Sulemans ' plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean near American Samoa on July 22 , ending a voyage that was months in the making and would have taken the father-son duo on a 26,500 mile adventure around the world in 30 days in their single-engine plane . Had they completed the flight , the teenager would have been the youngest pilot to achieve the feat . `` I was deeply saddened and shocked to hear of the tragic end of Babar and Haris ' fundraising mission , '' said entrepreneur Ashar Aziz . Aziz was a high school classmate and friend of Babar Suleman . `` I felt that the best way to honor this brave father and son duo was to complete their mission of raising $ 1 million for the charity that was dedicated to providing free education for the underprivileged . '' The Sulemans were raising money for the Indiana-based group Seeds of Learning , which supports the work of The Citizens Foundation in Pakistan . They had raised half their goal when their Beechcraft Bonanza A36 crashed into the Pacific 23 miles from the island . In an interview with CNN affiliate WISH TV in June , only days before the pair set off , Babar Suleman , also a pilot , spoke of the importance of the work done by the Pakistan charity . The money raised , he said , would help open schools `` for underprivileged children who otherwise would not have a hope of getting an education and may even end up in the wrong hands . '' Aziz said , `` Since this is a cause I also believe deeply in , it was only appropriate that I help complete my old friend and class-fellow 's humanitarian mission . '' Cookie Suleman , Babar Suleman 's wife and Haris ' mother , was `` really , really touched , '' according to Danial Noorani , spokesman for The Citizens Foundation , the parent organization of Seeds of Learning . The body of Haris Suleman was recovered after the crash , but his father is missing and presumed dead . Services for the teen were held Thursday in his hometown of Plainfield in central Indiana .
An Indiana father and son 's dreams of raising $ 1 million for charity come true . Babar Khan and his wife Haris died when their plane crashed in the desert . A former classmate of the elder Suleman donated the remaining funds to Pakistan charity .