KS: Amelia Earhart Airport Manager Dies in Plane Crash

July 17, 2017

Atchison County, Kan., — Two people died when a World War II P-51D Mustang crashed in Atchison County on Sunday, one day after the Amelia Earhart Festival ended.

Longtime pilot Vlado Lenoch, 64, of Burr Ridge, Ill., and his passenger, Bethany Root, 34, manager of the Amelia Earhart Memorial Airport in Atchison, died at the scene, officials said.

The crash happened around 10:30 a.m. in a field about 2 1/2 miles northeast of Cummings, Kan., less than nine miles from the airport in Atchison.

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