Man who went to space with William Shatner dies in plane crash

Glen de Vries (LM Otero/AP)

A man who travelled to space with William Shatner last month has been killed along with another person when the small plane they were in crashed in a wooded area of New Jersey.

Glen M de Vries, 49, and Thomas P Fischer, 54, were aboard the single-engine Cessna 172 that went down on Thursday.