UPDATE: Rockwall police respond to fatal plane crash, victims identified

UPDATE: Rockwall police respond to fatal plane crash, victims identified

ROCKWALL, TX – Nov. 17, 2020 – On Thursday, November 12, 2020, at approximately 1:08 p.m., the Rockwall Police Department and Rockwall Fire Department responded to a report of a plane crash near the 1900 Block of State Highway 66 next to Ralph Hall Municipal Airport.

Upon arrival, a single engine aircraft was located in a field just North of the roadway that had apparently crashed near the airfield. First responders found two persons deceased inside the wreckage.

The victims of the crash are identified as 75-year-old Donald L. Wehmeyer of Abilene, TX and 67 year old Curtis G. Robertson Jr. of Abilene, TX. The case remains under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration.

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