Versailles Couple Die In Plane Crash

The wreckage of a plane which crash in a

Jennings County field Saturday night. The

victims have been identified as a Versailles

couple.

provided by Indiana State Police

(Jennings County, Ind.) - Saturday evening at approximately 8:41 p.m. Jennings County Dispatch received a 911 call of a plane crash south of County Road 600 South in near Dupont.

 

Officers responded to the scene and located a single engine Cessna out in a field several hundred yards from the roadway.  Officers reported two fatalities; one male and one female.

 

Indiana State Police identified those victims as Versailles residents Gregory L. Wehr and his wife Candace S. Wehr, both 55-years-old.

 

They were enroute back to Madison Municipal Airport from Chicago when their 1968 single engine Cessna went down in the field.

 

Federal Aviation Administration officials arrived on scene just after midnight Sunday to begin their investigation.  It could be several weeks before the cause of the crash is determined. 

 

Candace Wehr was a former South Ripley Community Schools teacher.

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