Pickleball players killed in Texas plane crash included a school tennis star, trauma counselor
Five members of an Amarillo pickleball club died in a plane crash in Texas on Thursday night. The victims were identified as Justin Appling, Hayden Dillard, Brooke Skypala, Stacy Hedrick, and Seren Wilson.
Five members of the Amarillo Pickleball Club were killed when their small plane crashed in Texas Hill Country on Thursday night. The victims were identified as Justin Appling, the pilot, Hayden Dillard, Brooke Skypala, Stacy Hedrick, and Seren Wilson. The group was traveling to a pickleball tournament in New Braunfels. The plane, a Cessna 421C, departed from Amarillo and crash-landed in Wimberley, about 40 miles southwest of Austin. The victims were described as close-knit friends who were part of a tight community of pickleball players. Skypala was a trauma counselor with a master's degree from West Texas A&M University, and Wilson was a former state champion tennis player at Amarillo High School. The cause of the crash is under investigation by federal authorities.
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