Cause of Death Cardiac Arrest Complication of being involved in a plane crash.
A stunt flying pilot crashed his small plane near Canyon Lake 20 miles west of here Sunday, killing himself and a female passenger. Both victims were identified as San Antonio residents. Dead in the wreckage were Peter Leroy Paul, 31 and Mrs. Kay Ruekle Miller, 26.
According to witnesses, Paul was attempting a "barrel roll" in the Cessna Skylark and tried to fly upside down under a telephone wire approximately 15 feet from the ground when he crashed.
The plane hit the wire, witnesses said, then crashed at the side of a gravel road and flipped onto the road.
"He had been flying at tree level for about 15 minutes before the crash," reported G.R. Williams, a Bexar County reserve deputy sheriff, who was visiting relatives at a trailer park near the site of the crash.
(San Antonio Express-News, June 22, 1970)
A stunt flying pilot crashed his small plane near Canyon Lake 20 miles west of here Sunday, killing himself and a female passenger. Both victims were identified as San Antonio residents. Dead in the wreckage were Peter Leroy Paul, 31 and Mrs. Kay Ruekle Miller, 26.
According to witnesses, Paul was attempting a "barrel roll" in the Cessna Skylark and tried to fly upside down under a telephone wire approximately 15 feet from the ground when he crashed.
The plane hit the wire, witnesses said, then crashed at the side of a gravel road and flipped onto the road.
"He had been flying at tree level for about 15 minutes before the crash," reported G.R. Williams, a Bexar County reserve deputy sheriff, who was visiting relatives at a trailer park near the site of the crash.
(San Antonio Express-News, June 22, 1970)
Cause of Death Cardiac Arrest Complication of being involved in a plane crash.
A stunt flying pilot crashed his small plane near Canyon Lake 20 miles west of here Sunday, killing himself and a female passenger. Both victims were identified as San Antonio residents. Dead in the wreckage were Peter Leroy Paul, 31 and Mrs. Kay Ruekle Miller, 26.
According to witnesses, Paul was attempting a "barrel roll" in the Cessna Skylark and tried to fly upside down under a telephone wire approximately 15 feet from the ground when he crashed.
The plane hit the wire, witnesses said, then crashed at the side of a gravel road and flipped onto the road.
"He had been flying at tree level for about 15 minutes before the crash," reported G.R. Williams, a Bexar County reserve deputy sheriff, who was visiting relatives at a trailer park near the site of the crash.
(San Antonio Express-News, June 22, 1970)
A stunt flying pilot crashed his small plane near Canyon Lake 20 miles west of here Sunday, killing himself and a female passenger. Both victims were identified as San Antonio residents. Dead in the wreckage were Peter Leroy Paul, 31 and Mrs. Kay Ruekle Miller, 26.
According to witnesses, Paul was attempting a "barrel roll" in the Cessna Skylark and tried to fly upside down under a telephone wire approximately 15 feet from the ground when he crashed.
The plane hit the wire, witnesses said, then crashed at the side of a gravel road and flipped onto the road.
"He had been flying at tree level for about 15 minutes before the crash," reported G.R. Williams, a Bexar County reserve deputy sheriff, who was visiting relatives at a trailer park near the site of the crash.
(San Antonio Express-News, June 22, 1970)
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