Officials Investigating Plane Crash Near Paris, AR
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Federal officials are investigating the crash of a
small plane that went down in Logan County, killing both people on
board.
The crash occurred yesterday near the Paris airport. Logan
County Sheriff Mark Limbird identified the victims as 72-year-old
James Henson and 54-year-old Donald Ward, both of Paris.
The men were killed when Henson`s Cessna Skyhawk 172
single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area about 800 yards west
of the airport. The men were headed to Ozark to attend a weekly
pilots` breakfast in the airport hangar. Ozark and Paris are about
18 miles apart.
Limbird said low clouds and fog in the area could have
contributed to the crash.
------
Henson had owned a company that made small engines, was a former
city alderman and a member of the Paris Airport Commission. Ward
was the music director and youth minister at the First Baptist
Church in Paris.
