2 dead, 2 hurt in small-plane crash in Ariz.

SHOW LOW, Ariz. - A plane crash in eastern Arizona has killed a well-known rural Arizona auto dealer and his wife and severely injured the man's son and his wife.

The single-engine plane crashed moments after taking off Saturday morning in Show Low.

Show Low police Sgt. Shawn Roby identified the dead as Gerald Hatch and his wife, Ruth Hatch, of Snowflake-Taylor. Both were 66.

Gerald Hatch's 38-year-old son, Rob Hatch, was pulled from the flaming airplane by firefighters. Rob Hatch and his 36-year-old wife, Kelly Hatch, were flown to Phoenix hospitals.

Police Chief Jeffrey Smythe says Gerald Hatch was the primary owner of a series of automobile dealerships in the eastern Arizona mountain communities of Show Low, Winslow and Snowflake.

Roby says Ruth, Rob and Kelly Hatch also were affiliated with the dealerships.

The plane was headed to Las Vegas.

[retiredgustav]

This is news? How many people died in car wreaks in the same time period? Give me an airplane any day. Even a single engine two seater.

[Skruffy1]

CBS, your use of an image of a business jet to headline a story about a single-engine plane crashing really undermines your credibility. No, you didn't say "a plane like the one pictured", but you'd have looked far less lazy if you'd taken the additional 5 seconds to find a stock photo of a single-engine plane... or gone without a picture. Lazy is part of what is killing journalism.