Four Ford Executives Killed: Four Ford Motor...
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Four Ford Executives Killed: Four Ford Motor Co. executives were killed in a light-airplane crash this weekend, the auto maker said. The four were killed when the airplane flown by one of them crashed about noon Sunday shortly after takeoff from Otsego County Airport near Gaylord on Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. They were identified as Richard G. Bentley, 51, executive vice president for finance, and Robert L. Decker, 50, vice president for employee relations, both with Ford Motor Credit; James A. Hewitt, 56, employee relations manager for truck operations, and Ben Muns, 62, of Bloomfield Hills, director of the compensation planning office at Ford Motor World Headquarters.
