4 people who died in two crashes Saturday at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh have been identified

Rebecca Loroff, Oshkosh Northwestern
Updated ·1 min read

OSHKOSH - Four people who died in two separate crashes Saturday during the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture convention have been identified.

During the first crash at 9 a.m., a single-engine plane crashed into Lake Winnebago carrying two people, who died at the scene. They have been identified as 30-year-old Devyn Reiley of Guadalupe, Texas, and 20-year-old Zach Collie Moreno, whose hometown was not included in EAA's news release.

Reiley was a trained pilot who cofounded the Texas Warbird Museum, according to the organization's social media page. The daughter of former NFL player Bruce Collie, Reiley was part of two panel discussions at AirVenture, called "WASP in Their Own Words," on the Women's Airforce Service Pilots, a civilian women’s pilot association program in World War II.

Only three hours after Reiley and Colliemoreno's plane crashed, a helicopter and gyrocopter collided in midair at Wittman Regional Airport.

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After the crash, two people died at the scene: 69-year-old Mark Peterson of Foley, Alabama, and 72-year-old Thomas Volz, of Amelia, Ohio.

Two more unidentified people were injured and hospitalized, but EAA said they were in stable condition as of Sunday.

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The helicopter and gyrocopter were not involved in that afternoon's air show, which went on that afternoon at 2:45 p.m.

There have been five crashes in the region during AirVenture, which started Monday and ended Sunday. No one was seriously hurt in the other crashes before Saturday.

Contributing: Larry Gallup.

Rebecca Loroff is a breaking and trending news reporter for USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. Contact her at rloroff@gannett.com.

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