FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The Tarrant County Medical Examiners Office on Friday, December 25, confirmed the identities of the two men killed in a small plane crash in Grand Prairie on Monday, December 21st.
John Robert Frazier, 65, of the Trophy Club and Larry Ronald Vieregge, 71, of Grapevine died at the scene shortly before 3 p.m. when his plane crashed along the service road. SH 360 near Mayfield Road.
It is not clear which person was the pilot and which the passenger.
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 crashed into a telephone pole, then crashed into a truck and came to rest next to Sonic’s parking lot where it caught fire.
Chief Fite said firefighters quickly put him out.
Small plane crash in Grand Prairie on Monday, December 21 (Chopper 11)
The person in the truck was taken to hospital in stable condition.
The Federal Aviation Administration is leading the investigation.
Fite noted that the plane caught fire after resting in a grassy area near a Sonic drive-in restaurant.
“The plane had an obvious anxiety going down,” Fite said. “We don’t know if it was an emergency landing or a catastrophic failure.”
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