- Five pickleball players, identified as Seren Wilson, Brooke Skypala, Stacy Hedrick, Glen Appling, and Hayden Dillard, were killed in a plane crash near Wimberley, Texas, on Thursday.
- The victims, ranging in age from teens to mid-40s, were members of the Amarillo Pickleball Club and were en route to a pickleball tournament when their small Cessna plane went down.
- Local officials reported that the Cessna plane was traveling at a "high rate of speed" when it crashed in a wooded area outside Austin, Texas, and subsequently caught fire.
- The group had departed from Amarillo, Texas, in a Cessna 421C plane, with their destination being New Braunfels National Airport.
- The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is leading the investigation into the incident with assistance from the FAA, and initial findings indicate no mid-air collision occurred.
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