Bush jet crash kills three
A private jet en route to Houston to pick up former US President George Bush clipped a telegraph pole and crashed today in thick fog, killing all three people aboard.
The Gulfstream G-1159A jet, coming into Houston, Texas, went down about 6.15am local time (12.15pm Irish time) in an undeveloped area south of the airport.
“The plane that unfortunately crashed was flying in from Dallas to pick former President Bush up, with myself as a travel aide and a Secret Service agent,” said Tom Freschette, spokesman for the former President Bush in Houston.
Bush was going to give a lecture for the Quayaquil Chamber of Commerce in Ecuador, Freschette said.
