UNDATED - Members of a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Gainesville are remembering a former pastor of the church who died in that Tennessee plane crash Thursday.
Jim Frost was one of four officials of the Calhoun-based Georgia-Cumberland Conference of the church who died in the crash. We have confirmed that Frost, assistant to the president of the conference, was a former pastor of the 7th-day Adventist Church on Vine Street in Gainesville.
In addition to Frost, those who perished in the crash are Dave Cress, the conference president; Jamie Arnall, communications director, Clay Farwell, assistant to the conference president and hired pilot John Laswell.
The only survivor, co-pilot Jim Huff, was taken to a Chattanooga hospital. Huff is a volunteer co-pilot and a member of the Standifer Gap Seventh-day Adventist Church in Chattanooga.
Senior pastor Phil White of the Calhoun Seventh-day Adventist Church said the co-pilot was in fair condition in a Chattanooga hospital.
``He has communicated with authorities and told them that the pilot tried to land the plane after it lost power,'' said White. ``The plane struck some trees and broke in two. The survivor managed to get out before it exploded.''
White said the plane was headed to Knoxville for another pastors' conference.
The Georgia-Cumberland Conference is one of eight conferences comprising the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Churches, based in Decatur, Ga.. It operates 142 churches with more than 29,000 members in Georgia, eastern Tennessee and Cherokee County, N.C.
(The Associated Press contributed to this story.)
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