"He was finally going to be able to fulfill his goal of taking care of us and starting our life with our children,” his wife said

The NTSB's preliminary report on the April plane crash in New Market states the aircraft made a steep descent nose down before hitting the ground.

Dan Fordice, a Vicksburg native, philanthropist and construction company owner, died Tuesday when the plane he was piloting crashed at Tallulah Vicksburg

This is a developing story.

Only the pilot was on board at the time, the Maine Warden Service confirmed. The crash is being investigated by the FAA and NTSB.

The son of former Mississippi Gov. Kirk Fordice was killed Thursday in a plane crash near the Vicksburg-Tallulah Regional Airport in northeast Louisiana.

The three new lawsuits also accused one of the UPS pilots who died of failing to prevent the Louisville plane crash.