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Texas Piper Crash

What: Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche en route from Amarillo to Port Mansfield
Where: Port Mansfield
When: Dec 10, 2009
Who: 2 aboard; names not released at time of initial report
Why: Two fishermen en route to a weekend fishing expedition were in the Piper that disappeared from radar at 10:30 Thursday night and crashed in Port Mansfield.

The remains found of 48-year-old Robert James Robinett of Sunray, Texas were found in Gulf waters.

Reportedly, the pilot was Harvey Kinikin of Amarillo. The plane is registered to James M. Scroggin of Arkansas.

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