Was Rainer Aberer piloting the plane that crashed in West Texas?”
A Houston businessman and his wife died when their small plane crashed in a cotton field in Floyd County near Doughtery. The Texas Department of Public Safety identified the victims as the pilot, Rainer Aberer, 53, and Sharen Lee Severson, 56. Omicron Electronics business manager Sandra Whitney on Monday told The Associated Press that Aberer founded the company, based in Klaus, Austria. The wreckage of the Cessna 182 was discovered Saturday afternoon by a farmer. National Transportation Safety Board official Jennifer Rodi said the plane crashed Thursday night while en route to Plainview. Aberer had contacted the Plainview/Hale County Airport for landing information during thunderstorms. The cause of the crash is being sought.
http://www.kcbd.com/global/Story.asp?s=10570340 Posted: June 21, 2009 11:15 PM Small plane crash in Floyd County kills two By Brittany Pieper LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) — Authorities are trying to determine what caused a fatal plane crash near Floydada. The National Transportation Safety Board says the plane actually crashed Thursday night, but no one found it until Saturday afternoon. The two people in the plane, 53-year-old Rainer Aberer and 56-year-old Sharen Lee Seversen, both of Houston, died after they were ejected from the aircraft. “At approximately 9:45 on Thursday evening the 18th of June, a Cessna 182 was en route from Houston to Plainview, Texas and impacted terrain under unknown circumstances,” said Jennifer Rodi with NTSB. Thursday night Aberer and Seversen contacted the Plainview Airport to tell the Unicom operator they might land there, but the plane carrying Aberer and Seversen never made it to Plain
DOUGHERTY — A Houston businessman and his wife died when their small plane crashed in a cotton field in Floyd County, about 50 miles northeast of Lubbock. The Texas Department of Public Safety identified the victims as the pilot, 53-year-old Rainer Aberer and 56-year-old Sharen Lee Severson. Omicron Electronics business manager Sandra Whitney today said that Aberer founded the company, based in Klaus, Austria. The wreckage of the Cessna 182 was discovered Saturday afternoon by a farmer. National Transportation Safety Board official Jennifer Rodi said the plane crashed Thursday night while en route to Plainview. Aberer had contacted the Plainview/Hale County Airport for landing information during thunderstorms.
