Monday, October 12, 2015

Upper East Tennessee plane crash
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office officially released the names of the victims of a Friday night fatal plane crash. The victims have been identified as William “Bill” Gibbons, 45, and his 15-year-old daughter, Abbey, of Bloomington, Indiana. It was raining when the small plane crashed on Buffalo Mountain near the Unicoi County-Washington County line during its flight from Knoxville to Bloomington. Sheriff Ed Graybeal said on Sunday that Gibbons was likely following a flight plan that led him over Johnson City when the plane went down just after 7 p.m. Friday. Rescue teams, investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board worked until the late afternoon on Sunday to inspect the debris. Gibbons’was a biomedical engineer and vice president of Cook Medical in Bloomington.


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