League City Couple Killed In Detroit Plane Crash

DETROIT, MI -- A League City man and his wife were killed, and his 17-year-old son was critically injured when their single-engine Cessna crashed Sunday evening in a Detroit suburb.

Greg Boaz, 54, and his wife Julie, 48, and Greg Boaz's son were on their way to Detroit to see his daughter play in a volleyball tournament, when Boaz reported trouble with the landing gear to the control tower.

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As Boaz circled the area, he reported being low and fuel, and a short time later crashed about a mile from Coleman A. Young International Airport .

Footage taken moments after the crash showed the fiery wreckage of the plane, and Boaz's son miraculously rolling out of the plane and running to safety, and is in a Detroit hospital in critical condition.

Greg and Julie Boaz, however, didn't survive.

On Monday, the Lone Star Grill in Bacliff and closed, while the Palapas Bar in Keamh, stayed open, both as a way of honoring Greg Boaz, who owned both businesses.

“It’s hard to lose a pillar of your community,” Walter Wilson, the general manager of Palapa’s Bar, told KPRC.

Friends for more than 10 years, Wilson said Boaz would want to keep Palapas Bar open, so that those who knew Greg and Julie cold come and celebrate his and Julie's lives.

"He was good, he took care of his people, he took care of the people that took care of him and it’s really hard to know that we’re never going to get to talk to him again," Wilson said.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash.

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