Marshfield: Fatal Plane Crash

What: Piper Meridian en route to the Marshfield airport.
Where: near the Marshfield airport into the backyard of a home near 17th Street and Devine Avenue. Marshfield is located about 40 miles southwest of Wausau.
When: 11 p.m. Saturday.
Who: pilot James Franklin Edwards and two sons, James Franklin Edwards IV, age 15, and Joshua James Edwards, age 9. It is believed that these three members of the Edwards family perished in the crash. (We offer our condolences)
Why: NTSB and FAA are investigating

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