Two Killed in Seneca County Plane Crash

Two men were killed in a plane crash Tuesday night 2 miles east of Fostoria in Seneca County.

According to a release from the Norwalk Post of the Ohio State Patrol, officers from the Seneca County Sheriff’s Office and Fostoria Police Department were dispatched to the scene where they located the crashed plane in a wooded area.

They also located the bodies of the pilot, 59 year old Shane A. Halbrook, of Indiana, and the co-pilot, 51 year old Michael D. Wright, of Illinois.

They were the only two on the Piper Saratoga single engine plane.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.