GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) – One of the 12 people killed in a plane crash in Missouri on Sunday graduated from the University of Florida and participated in the Fightin’ Gators Marching Band.
Blake Thacker, 25, a Tallahassee, Florida, native, went skydiving for the first time on his 18th birthday with his mother, Sherry. He was set to get his skydiving coach certification over the weekend, she told the Associated Press.
“Skydiving had given him the confidence to do other things in his life, to be successful and reach for things maybe he thought he wasn’t good enough to do,” she said…