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Couple killed in plane crash identified
Florida residents died when aircraft went down in Greene County
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Authorities investigate the crash scene near Snow Hill in Greene County.
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Published: May 10, 2008
SNOW HILL - Authorities have identified the couple killed in the crash of a small plane in North Carolina.
Sheriff Lemmie Smith of Greene County said yesterday that Mark Sobel and his wife, Joan Wilson, were killed when their plane went down in a farm field near a residential area outside of Snow Hill, about 20 miles southwest of Greenville.
Sobel and Wilson were both 56.
Smith said that the couple listed Estero, Fla., as their home address, but were flying to their home in Connecticut when the crash occurred Thursday afternoon.
Sobel and his wife were flying home to South Windsor, Conn., said South Windsor's mayor, Matthew Streeter, who knew the couple for 20 years. The couple also lived in Florida for several months of the year, Streeter said.
"They were well-known in the community," Streeter told WFSB-TV in Hartford. "When you have kids in the community, when you're active in the community, I think it's going to be a shock to the town."
Streeter said that Mark Sobel was a pilot. Federal aviation officials said that the plane was headed from Fort Myers, Fla., to Hartford, Conn.
North Carolina officials said that the pilot reported that he had icing on the wings before the plane disappeared from radar and lost radio contact. The Federal Aviation Administration Web site indicates that the plane was a Lancair IV-P, a home-built, amateur plane completed in 2003.
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