A Telugu NRI couple, Umamaheshwara Rao Kalapathapu (63) and Seethageetha Kalapathapu (61), were killed in a plane crash in Ohio on Saturday. Both of them were doctors.
According to police reports, the small plane they were traveling in from Cass County, Logansport, in Indiana, to an airport in Parkesbury, in West Virginia, crashed into an abandoned retention pond at Beverly, in Ohio state, in North America.
Aviation authorities recovered the wreckage of the crashed plane from the pond several hours after it went off the radar, on Saturday evening.
The plane reportedly crashed due to a technical snag. The Telugu couple were the only two people on the Piper Archer PA-28.