ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, October 31, 1996 TAG: 9610310058
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
Plane crash kills 2 men near Culpeper
CULPEPER - An airplane with a student pilot apparently at the controls clipped the tops of several trees and crashed near an airport in Culpeper County, killing both men on board.
Mike Windsor, 49, an experienced pilot, and Kevin Anderson, 32, died in the crash Tuesday, a state police spokeswoman said. Anderson, a trainee, apparently was flying the plane, she said.
Windsor and Anderson left the Warrenton airport about 5 p.m. in the four-seat Cessna 172. The Culpeper Sheriff's Office found the wreckage Wednesday morning in a field off Virginia 676, a quarter-mile west of the Culpeper airport.
Windsor was a retired Marine Corps major and the chief pilot for Fairfax Hospital's medical flight unit. Anderson was a self-employed contractor and a former Arlington County firefighter. He has three small children, and his wife is eight months pregnant, police said. Both men were from Stafford County.
- Associated Press
Children sentenced in beating of toddler
BOYDTON - A 13-year-old boy who participated in the brutal beating of his 3-year-old cousin was committed Wednesday to the Department of Juvenile Justice for an indeterminate period.
The beaten toddler's 11-year-old half-sister was placed on supervised probation in her home state of South Carolina, according to Mecklenburg County Juvenile and Domestic Relations court clerk Barbara Edgerton.
Authorities said the children bit the girl and beat her with their hands and a belt July 25 because she refused to cry. She underwent several surgeries after the attack, including one in which a portion of her brain was removed.
The victim's 16-year-old half-brother is to be tried Nov. 20 on an aggravated malicious wounding charge. The 13-year-old, found guilty of aggravated malicious wounding earlier this month, will be evaluated at the Bon Air Diagnostic and Reception Center in suburban Richmond. The 11-year-old pleaded guilty to assault and battery Oct. 2.
- Associated Press
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