Plane crash near Louisville kills university trustee, soccer team founder
Ball State University board trustee Wayne Estopinal died in a plane crash near Louisville with two others Friday. Courtesy of WDRB-TV.
Dec. 1 (UPI) – A plane crash in Memphis, Indiana, about 16 miles north of Louisville, Friday morning killed three people, including a Ball State University board trustee, who was a prominent local architect and founder of the city's professional soccer team.
Wayne Estopinal, 63, of the Louisville City FC, has been the only person identified in the crash that happened about 11:30 a.m. when a Cessna Citation Jet 525A went down in a wooded area after taking off from Clark Regional Airport on its way to Chicago-Midway International Airport, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.
The accident remains under investigation, but Clark Regional Airport manager John Secor told the newspaper that the debris field indicated that the plane did not break up in air but was heavily damaged when it went down in the wooded area.
National Weather Service meteorologist Ryan Sharp said that there was no severe weather in the area at the time of the crash….
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