Survivor of Gwinnett plane crash was ‘inches from death,’ pastor says

A 72-year-old Florida man who flew for the Air Force and Pan Am is recovering after a plane crash near Lawrenceville killed a Roswell tech founder.

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Peter Magnuson and Eric Stephens, 57, were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down off Old Athens Road around 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Gwinnett County firefighters said. Stephens died at the scene. Nathan Rice, who leads Magnuson’s congregation in Ocala, said word came Tuesday night.