Technical Sergeant Ashley Pruitt and her unborn child perish in KC-130 plane crash – final moments spent trying to save the baby she carried Ashley Pruitt, a courageous Technical Sergeant in the United States Air Force who was pregnant with her first child, passed away along with her unborn baby in the catastrophic crash of a KC-130 aircraft. In the final, horrifying moments—when the plane plunged into a sea of flames and thick black smoke—Ashley reportedly used every ounce of her remaining strength to protect the child who had not yet been born, an act that has brought millions of people around the world to tears. Surviving witnesses later recounted chilling details.
Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt – the radiant 34-year-old Air Force boom operator from Bardstown, Kentucky – perished alongside her unborn child in the catastrophic crash of a KC-135 Stratotanker over western Iraq on...