One of two occupants in a single-engine aircraft that crashed in Dunlap has died, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Two people were hospitalized after being removed from the plane that crashed around 6:30 p.m. CDT on Tuesday in a small field on the east side of Dunlap, according to Police Chief Randy Phillips. One of those two people has since died from their injuries.
Wendall R. Trimble, 79, has been identified as the person killed in the crash, and Ashish Sircar, 55, of Jacksonville, Florida, has been identified as the injured survivor, Phillips said. Sircar was last listed in serious condition. Trimble, who lived on Ridge Road, is the listed owner of the aircraft.
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The safety board and the Federal Aviation Administration began investigating at the scene Wednesday, according to Phillips. The crash site was about 50 feet from the end of a private airstrip on Ridge Road.