East Texas Physician Dies In Lubbock Plane Crash

Cessna 172
(Not actual aircraft involved in Lubbock crash)

Authorities identified an East Texas emergency room doctor as the pilot who died when his small plane crashed in a neighborhood in Lubbock earlier this week. Reportedly, 59-year-old Donald Eakin, of Hallsville, worked at UT-Health East Texas in Carthage. They discovered his body in the single-engine Cessna wreckage after it crashed into a back alley in a Lubbock neighborhood Monday and burst into flames.