A former Mountain Home businessman was killed Friday evening in a northwest Arkansas plane crash.
According to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, Lewis Brant Barnes, 43, of Tonitown, Ark., was the sole occupant of the fixed-wing, single-engine aircraft that crashed in rural Washington County, southeast of Fayetteville, on Jan. 6.
The sheriff’s office said the first report of the crash was at 5:57 p.m., and deputies were on the scene at 6:03 p.m. The crash is under investigation.
Barnes, an insurance agent in Fayetteville, formerly co-owned the Papa John’s Pizza outlet in Mountain Home and was the son of former Mountain Home insurance agent Lewis Barnes and the brother of Gregory Jewelers owner Lori Gregory, according to Mountain Home radio station KTLO. (Click here to read the KTLO story.)
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