Plane crash in Ohio kills pilot who lived in Williams Township, two passengers

FROM THE EXPRESS TIMES

A pilot who lived for a short time in Williams Township was killed Monday in a plane crash in Ohio, according to a newspaper report.

The sheriff's office in northeast Ohio's Holmes County said in a statement that 48-year-old Phillip Wayne Hatfield, who lived in Williams Township for about a year until May, according to public records, was killed in the crash along with his passengers, 36-year-old Jonathan K. Hines, of Farmersburg, Ind., and 38-year-old Tracy L. Custer, of Shelburn, Ind.

Hatfield has a more recent Indiana address. The newspaper reports he lived in the 400 block of Waterford Terrace in Williams Township.

Sheriff Tim Zimmerly says the 1957 Piper Apache plane was headed to Steubenville in eastern Ohio and apparently was diverted because of fog. He tells The Daily Record of Wooster that Hatfield was trying to land at the Holmes County Airport but was flying lower than he thought because of thick fog.

The Terra Haute, Ind., Tribune Star reported Hatfield lived in Terra Haute and formerly lived in Sullivan, Ind., and Carlisle, Ind. The newspaper said Hatfield graduated from Sullivan High School in 1981.

Vern Moyer of Moyer Aviation at Forks Township's Braden Airpark said he did not know Hatfield and his plane had not been based at the airpark.

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