Stephen Lester | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:16:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Piper Crash in Tulsa kills 5 https://airflightdisaster.com/5583/ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:48:30 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=5583 What: Six-passenger Piper en route from Jones Riverside Airport to Dallas Where: Chandler Park in West Tulsa When: 10:40 a.m., Saturday Sept 5 minutes after takeoff Who: Two men, a woman and two girls Tulsa doctor Stephen Lester, his wife Dana, two teenage daughters, Laura, 16 and Christina, 13. and Dr. Kenneth Veteto Why: Just...

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]]> What: Six-passenger Piper en route from Jones Riverside Airport to Dallas
Where: Chandler Park in West Tulsa
When: 10:40 a.m., Saturday Sept 5 minutes after takeoff
Who: Two men, a woman and two girls Tulsa doctor Stephen Lester, his wife Dana, two teenage daughters, Laura, 16 and Christina, 13. and Dr. Kenneth Veteto
Why: Just after takeoff in rainy, foggy conditions, the plane hit a cable attached to a telecommunications tower, crashed, broke up and caught on fire. When the plane hit, the wings came off. The plane flipped several times. The family and a friend had been going to the University of Oklahoma football game. Dr Veteto leaves a wife and two children.

Two more of the family’s children were not on the plane.

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