OWLS HEAD (AP) — A nearly $4 million settlement has been reached between the families of three men who died in a small-plane crash in Maine last year and several other parties.
Two University of Maine students and one alumnus died in the November crash that occurred when their plane clipped a pickup truck on takeoff at Knox County Regional Airport in Owls Head.
The truck was authorized to be on airport grounds and had issued a warning.
The victims were 22-yearold David Cheney, of Beverly, Mass.; 24-year-old Marcelo Rugini, an exchange student from Brazil; and the pilot and alumnus, 24-year-old William “B.J.” Hannigan III, of South Portland.
The truck driver, his employer and Hannigan’s flying club paid the bulk of the settlement.
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