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Family Tragically Lost in Kansas Cornfield

What: Precision Ag & Seed Services Beechcraft
Where: Topeka, Kansas
When: 22-APR-2011
Who: 4 fatalities
Why: A family of four missed the approach to Philip Billard Municipal Airport. Witnesses to the crash say they heard the engine sputter.

The plane was flying too low as it made a go-around to make a second landing pass. The plane was a Beechcraft built in Kansas.

The young Scott city couple and their daughters were making an Easter trip when they crashed. The victims names were released: Richard Dylan Spencer, 35; Amy Beth Spencer, 34; and their daughters, Chase Spencer, 7, and Ansley Spencer, 5.

All of these aviation crashes that involve deaths are terrible; but somehow it hits home sharper when it is a young couple with their two small children.

Rest in peace Spencers.

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