Missionaries die in Africa crash

SPOKANE, Wash. — A Spokane couple doing missionary work in Africa were killed in a plane crash recently in Zambia.

Jay and Katrina Erickson had been in Zambia since February, working at a hospital on the Zambezi River about 400 miles upstream from Victoria Falls.

The Chitokoloki Mission Hospital said Jay Erickson was flying a six-seat Cessna on Saturday with his wife on board after transporting a nurse. The plane hit an electrical pole and crashed into the Zambezi River near the town of Zambezi.