Defence official: US senator’s son killed in weekend plane crash in Oklahoma
TULSA, Okla. – The U.S. Secretary of Defence has confirmed the death of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe’s son, 52-year-old Dr. Perry Inhofe, who was killed in a weekend plane crash in northeast Oklahoma.
Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said Monday night that Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel “was informed of Sen. Inhofe’s son’s death.”
Perry Inhofe was an orthopedic surgeon for Central States Orthopedics in Tulsa. According to the clinic’s website, he graduated from Duke University in 1984 before attending medical school at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the multiengine plane was about five miles (eight kilometres) north of Tulsa International Airport when it crashed shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday. The plane took off from Salina, Kansas.
The married father lived in Tulsa.
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