(File Photo: Source for Photo: The wreckage of a plane crash burns in a field in Butler, Mo, Sunday, June 14, 2026. (Mid America News Review via AP Photo )

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Bates County, MO) Authorities said that a man from Pennsylvania was one of the 12 people that were killed when a skydiving plane crashed on Sunday in Missouri. 

The private plane crashed moments after it took off from Butler Memorial Airport in Butler, approximately 60 miles south of Kansas City. The Bates County Coroner’s Office identified the twelve victims yesterday, and one of them was sixty-nine-year-old Kurt John Roy of Windber. 

The Somerset County man was part of the victims ranging in age from 23 to 69. The others were five people from Missouri, four people from Kansas, one person from Colorado and one person from India.