Man dead after stolen plane crashes along Texas-Oklahoma border
A man died after he stole a plane from an airport in Addison, Texas, then crashed it near the Texas-Oklahoma border Wednesday, officials said.
A man died after he stole a plane from an airport in Addison, Texas, then crashed it near the Texas-Oklahoma border Wednesday, officials said.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said the plane, a Cessna 172, was stolen from the ATP Flight School at Addison Airport, about 15 miles north of downtown Dallas.
The pilot — identified by the DPS as Logan Timothy James, 23, of Stokesdale, North Carolina — then flew the plane more than 80 miles northeast toward Paris, Texas, before it crashed near the state border, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported.
Addison Airport told the station the plane departed the airport at 6:53 p.m. Wednesday.
It went down about 8:26 p.m. local time in an open field 9 miles northeast of Telephone, Texas. James was the only person on board, the DPS said.
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