Plane Crash

Five members of pickleball club killed in Texas plane crash

Five members of a pickleball club in Texas died Thursday night when the Cessna 421C plane they were on crashed. The plane crashed in Wimberley, Texas, 47 miles northeast of San Antonio at around 11:25 p.m. local time Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. The victims were Brooke Skypala, Glen Appling, Hayden Dillard, Seren Wilson and Stacy Hedrick, per a Facebook post from the Amarillo Pickleball Club, which they were members of. The club, based in Amarillo, Texas, 334 miles northwest of Dallas, said they were on their way to a pickleball tournament. Officials have not specified which of the victims was flying the plane, which caught fire after hitting the ground. “The pilot and four passengers on board were pronounced deceased on scene. The plane did catch fire. That would indicate some pretty severe damage to the plane,” Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Billy Ray told KXII-TV. Stacy Rohr, a nearby resident who did not realize the incident was a plane crash until the next day, told the Austin American-Statesman that she heard the sound and “was like, ’What in the world is that?’ So I sprang up, came out, and looked over, and it