Four people who died in two separate crashes Saturday during the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture convention have been identified.
During the first crash at 9 a.m., a single-engine plane crashed into Lake Winnebago carrying two people, who died at the scene. They have been identified as 30-year-old Devyn Reiley of Guadalupe, Texas, and 20-year-old Zach Collie Moreno, whose hometown was not included in EAA’s news release.
Reiley was a trained pilot who cofounded the Texas Warbird Museum, according to the organization’s social media page. The daughter of former NFL player Bruce Collie, Reiley was part of two panel discussions at AirVenture, called “WASP in Their Own Words,” on the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, a civilian women’s pilot association program in World War II.
Only three hours after Reiley and Colliemoreno’s plane crashed, a helicopter and gyrocopter collided in midair at Wittman Regional Airport.
After the crash, two people died at the scene: 69-year-old Mark Peterson of Foley, Alabama, and 72-year-old Thomas Volz, of Amelia, Ohio.
