Woman Dies After East Texas Plane Crash

Woman Dies After East Texas Plane Crash

A Jacksonville, Texas, woman died Sunday evening after being involved in a plane crash Sunday afternoon.

Officials say 60-year-old Debra Birch was flying a fixed-wing, single-engine Jabiru aircraft when it crashed into a hanger bay at the Cherokee County Airport around 4:35 Sunday evening. According to Lynn Lunsford with the FAA, the plane was trying to land while “touch and go landing,” which Lunsford says is a practice in which the pilot lands the plane and takes off numerous times.

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Updated: November 20, 2012 — 10:42 PM
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