(Credit: Associated Press)
UPDATE: The Texas Department of Public Safety has identified the passenger as 93-year-old Vincent Losada of San Antonio.
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The director of a museum says that a vintage World War II fighter plane that crashed into the parking lot of an apartment complex in Fredericksburg had performed during a flyover as part of a living history show for the museum.
Rorie Cartier, director of the National Museum of the Pacific War, tells The Associated Press in an email that the privately-owned P-51D Mustang fighter was returning to the Gillespie County Airport in Fredericksburg when it crashed, killing the pilot and a passenger, a World War 2 veteran.
Cartier added: “We express our deepest condolences to the families of both on board.”
Officials have identified the pilot as Cowden Ward Jr. The World War 2 veteran who also died has not been identified as of Monday morning.
