Two dead in plane crash in Grand Prairie, authorities say
Two people were killed when a two-passenger plane crashed in Grand Prairie Monday afternoon, Grand Prairie authorities said.
The two men on board the plane were identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office as John Robert Frazier, 65, of Trophy Club, and Larry Ronald Vieregge, 71, of Grapevine. Both men died of blunt force injuries with thermal trauma, according to the medical examiner’s office.
The plane went down near Texas 360 and Mayfield Road, Grand Prairie police wrote on Twitter at about 3:30 p.m.
At about 2:54 p.m., the plane crashed in the 2900 block of South Highway 360. The plane was flying from Denton, stopped at the Grand Prairie Municipal Airport and crashed minutes after takeoff, fire department officials said. The plane hit a pickup truck as the plane tried to land. The truck passenger was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The cause of the crash was not yet known on Monday afternoon. Emergency officials asked people to avoid the area.
This story was originally published December 21, 2020 at 4:18 PM.
