Blue Origin Space flight member Glen de Vries dies in plane crash

Glen de Vries, an entrepreneur and executive who was part of the second crew to visit space with Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, died in a small-plane crash in New Jersey on Thursday. He was 49.

De Vries was killed, along with flight instructor Thomas Fischer, after a single-engine Cessna 172 went down near Kemah Lake, according to the New Jersey Herald.