Ex-Olympian runner killed in Arizona plane crash
Friday, July 27, 2012
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The wife of a two-time Olympic distance runner Pat Porter confirms her husband, her 15-year-old son and her son's friend were the three people who died in a fiery plane crash in Sedona, Ariz.
Trish Porter said Friday that her 53-year-old husband was piloting the plane that crashed on takeoff Thursday.
The twin-engine Cessna was registered to Porter, but the family and authorities declined to immediately confirm the victims' identities.
Trish Porter says her son Connor and his 14-year-old Albuquerque Academy classmate Connor Mantsch were also on the plane.
Porter competed in the 10,000-meter run at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. He was a track star at Evergreen High School and Adams State University in Colorado.
Trish Porter is also a former Olympian. She met Pat during a pre-Olympic training camp for the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
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