A high school music teacher, a cancer survivor and a new father with two baby boys have been identified by family members as victims of a weekend skydiving plane crash in Missouri that killed 12 people.
According to the Bates county department of emergency management, the aircraft, a Pacific Aerospace P750XL, was carrying nine experienced skydivers, two tandem jumpers and a pilot.
All died when the plane – which had just taken off from the Butler, Missouri, airport south of Kansas City – took an unexpected turn and nosedived into the ground 300 yards from the runway.
Music teacher Dave Hershberger, named as
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