FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The office of the medical examiner from Tarrant County, on Friday, December 25, confirmed the identity of the two men killed in a small plane crash in Grand Prairie, on Monday, December 21.
John Robert Frazier, 65, of the Trophy Club and Larry Ronald Vieregge, 71, of Grapevine, died shortly before 3 p.m., when their plane crashed. along the SH 360 service road, near Mayfield Road.
It is not clear who the pilot was and who the passenger was.
The plane took off from Grand Prairie Municipal Airport just minutes before the crash, Grand Prairie Fire Chief Robert Fite said Monday.
Witnesses said the plane hit a telephone pole, then hit a truck and came to rest near the Sonic parking lot where it caught fire.
Chief Fite said firefighters quickly put him out.
Small plane crash in Grand Prairie, Monday, December 21 (Chopper 11)
The person in the truck was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
The Federal Aviation Administration is conducting the investigation.
The plane caught fire after resting in a grassy area near a Sonic drive-in restaurant, Fite said.
“The plane was in obvious suffering going down,” Fite said. “We don’t know if it was an emergency landing or a catastrophic failure.”
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