Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Three members of one of the top acts in the gospel vocal group genre, the Nelons, died in a plane crash Friday in Wyoming.
The members of the award-winning family group were on their way to perform on the annual Gaither Homecoming Alaska Cruise, which was scheduled to set out from Seattle.
The members who perished in the crash were Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband, Jason Clark, and their daughter, Amber Nelon Kistler.
No cause was immediately cited by authorities for the crash. The single engine turboprop Pilatus PC-12/47E with seven people aboard went down at about 1 p.m.
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