Glen de Vries, who went to space with William Shatner, dies in plane crash
- He and another man were in a single-engine Cessna 172 that went down in a wooded area in New Jersey
- De Vries, a tech entrepreneur, had spent 10 minutes in space last month aboard a vessel built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin
A man who travelled to space with William Shatner last month was killed along with another person when the small plane they were in crashed in a wooded area of northern New Jersey, according to state police.
Glen M. de Vries, 49, of New York, and Thomas P. Fischer, 54, of Hopatcong, were aboard the single-engine Cessna 172 that went down on Thursday.
De Vries was an instrument-rated private pilot, and Fischer owned a flight school. Authorities have not said who was piloting the small plane.
The plane had left Essex County Airport in Caldwell, on the edge of the New York City area, and was headed to Sussex Airport, in rural northwestern New Jersey, when the Federal Aviation Administration alerted public safety agencies to look for the missing plane around 3pm.
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Emergency crews found the wreckage in Hampton Township around 4pm, the FAA said.