Man Pushes Girlfriend From Plane Before Deadly Crash

Relatives of a man who was killed in a plane crash on the New Orleans lakefront are calling him a hero for what he did moments before his death. Crews returned to Lake Pontchartrain Tuesday to retrieve the wreckage of a small aircraft that crashed into the waters north of the New Orleans Lakefront Airport. One of the passengers, Brianna Davis, was the sole survivor. She was picked up by a private yacht and taken to a hospital. Family members identified the other passenger as Reginald Hillard Jr., who they said is a hero for pushing his girlfriend, Davis, out of the plane before it crashed. “He’s the hero. He was a hero living. You know, he died that way,” said Yolanda White, Hillard’s cousin. “This was his first plane flight ever. First time he flew on a plane. And it was a surprise from his girlfriend Brianna.”