Identities of pickleball players killed in plane crash on way to tournament released

The names of the 5 radical who were killed successful the Central Texas level clang that was taking a pickleball squad to a tourney person been revealed.

On committee the formation were 4 Amarillo Pickleball Club players from Amarillo, Texas, Hayden Dillard, Seren Wilson, Brooke Skypala, and Stacy Hedrick, on with aviator Justin Appling.

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A crashed Cessna airplane is seen successful a wooded country connected Round Rock Road successful Wimberley, Texas, Friday, May 1, 2026.  (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Dan Dyer, president of the Amarillo Pickleball Club, said he’d played galore games with 4 of the 5 radical who died.

"I’ve handed them medals. They were fantabulous players. They were retired to triumph immoderate games," Dyer said. "Every play determination are dozens of tournaments. Some radical get the bug; others don’t. But erstwhile they do, they’ll question for a tournament."

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigators are connected country and serving arsenic the pb investigative agencies, DPS said successful its Saturday release.

But the origin of the clang has yet to beryllium determined.

The level crashed successful Wimberley, a metropolis 40 miles southwest of Austin, astatine 11 p.m. Thursday.

A crashed Cessna airplane is seen successful a wooded country connected Round Rock Road successful Wimberley, Texas, connected May 1, 2026. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman)

Dyer said a 2nd level was traveling to the lawsuit from Amarillo astatine the aforesaid time. Authorities said it landed safely astatine the airdrome successful New Braunfels, astir 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of San Antonio.

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"I haven’t heard thing from him," the aviator of the 2nd level said, according to aerial postulation power audio.

A controller responded, "He started to determination erratically, and present his way is disappeared from the scope. So, we privation to marque definite everything’s each close with him."

At slightest 1 aviator successful the country confirmed the troubled plane’s locator exigency instrumentality had emitted a distress signal. The controller called 911.

It was mostly cloudy successful the New Braunfels country soon earlier the crash, and determination was a thunderstorm 2 hours later, the National Weather Service said.

A Cessna airplane crashed successful a wooded country connected Round Rock Road successful Wimberley, Texas, connected May 1, 2026. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman/AP)

Wimberley, with a colonisation of astir 3,000, and New Braunfels, with a colonisation of astir 116,000, are tourer destinations successful the Texas Hill Country.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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