Parents, son killed in west Georgia plane crash
The adult son of a Panama City couple has died from injuries sustained in the blaze that consumed a Cessna 177 after it crashed Saturday in rural Haralson County.
Twenty four-year-old Alex Woliver's parents, Kim and Patricia Woliver, were also killed in the crash of the single-engine plane roughly 50 miles west of Atlanta. There were no other passengers.
Haralson County Coroner Danny Hutcheson said Alex Woliver was pronounced dead Sunday morning at the burn unit of Grady Memorial Hospital.
The Wolivers were heading home from Knoxville, where they has spent Thanksgiving with relatives, according to an article in the Knoxville News. The couple's other son, Eric Woliver, 22, had taken a commercial flight to Knoxville, a cousin told the paper.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration and could take some time to determine.
The plane, manufactured in 1972, went down around 1:30 p.m. off Shealy Road west of Tallapoosa near the Alabama state line, Hutcherson said. According to FlightAware.com, a website that tracks flights, the plane was en route to Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport.
--Staff writer Mike Morris contributed to this article.
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