The great-grandsons of Wild West character Buffalo Bill Cody were killed in a plane crash when their small aircraft crashed in swamp land near Vero Beach, Florida. They had returned from an island hopping excursion in The Bahamas.
The victims of the crash were Barry Cody, 65; Kit Cody, 67; and Robert Krieger, 65.
Kit and Barry were brothers and the great-grandsons of William F ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody, who founded the town of Cody in Wyoming.
‘Buffalo Bill’ was famous for his organised Wild West shows that toured throughout the United States and abroad in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The US Federal Aviation Administration lost contact with the Cessna 310 on Thursday afternoon, and the crash site was discovered on Friday about 20 miles from Vero Beach, Florida.
Nancy Krieger, wife of Rob Krieger, said the three had spent two days on Treasure Cay.
Kit’s son-in-law, Bryan Edwards, said the three had been island-hopping in the Bahamas before the crash occurred in the wooded Fort Drum Marsh Conservation Area, west of Vero Beach and southeast of Orlando.
