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Home Depot Custer Road Mckinney
A retired Air Force abettor colonel and his 18-year-old son, himself accessory the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., both of Farmersville, were amid the three bodies who died in the two-plane blow over McKinney Saturday.
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Gregory Barber, 55, and his son, Tim Barber, were two of the victims, a ancestors acquaintance accepted for WFAA television. The Federal Aviation Administration said the blow occurred about 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Keith Clifton, a longtime acquaintance and business partner, told the television base that the Barber’s had aloof taken off from Aero Country airport and was entering the aboriginal about-face back his single-engine aircraft was addled in the tail. The even comatose into the southbound lanes of Custer Road, according to the report.
“He was an accomplished and actual accomplished pilot,” Clifton told WFAA. “Just admirable people, the cement that holds communities together.”
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The ancient Barber was a advance adept in Collin County with Boy Scouts of America for decades, Clifton said. He said Tim Barber was an Eagle Scout, accepting entered the Air Force Academy afterwards admission as salutatorian from Farmersville High School in 2016.
Family accompany told WFAA that the pilot of the added aircraft was Robert Navar, 48, of Frisco.
The midair blast is actuality advised by the National Transportation Safety Board.
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Lynn Lunsford, an FAA spokesman, said neither aircraft was in acquaintance with air cartage ascendancy at the time, and both were aerial beneath beheld flight rules.
Motorists were asked by McKinney badge to abstain the breadth of Custer Road and Virginia Parkway while they formed the even crash.
Chad Bloemker, a motorist active arctic on Custer Road, told a WFAA anchorman that he saw one even appear bottomward nose-first. WFAA credits Bloemker with cutting the video in the aloft tweet. The planes were aerial low and comatose in a densely busy area, according to WFAA reporting.
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One of the planes comatose in a accumulator ability abreast a Home Depot parking lot, according to appear reports.
Staff biographer Sandra Baker contributed to this report.
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