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Thanksgiving Bonanza Crashes in Orange Grove


What: single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza
Where: orange grove a quarter mile from the Porterville Airport.
When: 9:30 Thursday morning, Thanksgiving day
Who: The three people–two adults and a child–aboard have minor to serious injuries. They have been identified as pilot John Werle, 49; Kris Goodfellow, 38; and her 8-year-old son, Bennett Watson and the boy’s black Labrador retriever
Why: Witness heard the plane; heard the plane quit; heard the crash. Possibly Werle had been flying too low on the descent and the plane failed to respond when he tried to pull up higher.

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