The Cessna became a “ghost plane” after the pilot appeared to ... similarities to the plane crash that killed PGA golfer Payne Stewart in 1999. Photo by Harry How/Getty Images The Stewart ...

Payne Stewart died in a tragic plane crash in 1999. On October 25, 1999, a Learjet 35A plane lost cabin pressure and flew aimlessly when the renowned PGA Tour player died in a South Dakota pasture.

When a golf fan thinks of Payne Stewart, it's likely that two events come immediately to mind, in some order. The first is his uplifting triumph, at age 42, in the 1999 U.S. Open at Pinehurst.

A bronze statue of golfer Payne Stewart looms ... minutes into the flight after the plane lost cabin pressure. The loss of cabin pressure likely subjected Stewart and five others to hypoxia ...

It was Tracey Stewart, Payne’s wife. She delivered the harrowing news to Hicks that Payne’s plane, scheduled to fly from Orlando to Dallas that morning, had lost air pressure within the cabin.

WASHINGTON -- Maintenance logs show that the Learjet that carried golfer Payne Stewart to his death ... on June 28, 1986. The plane Stewart was on departed Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 25, for Dallas.

The private plane that crashed into a mountainous area in Virginia after becoming unresponsive flying over the capital echoes the 1999 death of golfer Payne Stewart whose Learjet flew for ...

It wouldn’t be the first time his career has mimicked Stewart, who died in a plane crash the same ... is trying to channel the ghost of boyhood idol Payne Stewart at 124th U.S. Open ...

The plane, carrying pro golfer Payne Stewart and five others, was on its way from Orlando to Dallas when the cabin lost pressure and flew aimlessly across the country for four hours on autopilot.

In the quarter-century since Payne Stewart’s death in a plane crash, his family — led by his wife, Tracey, daughter Chelsea and son Aaron — have worked resolutely to keep his memory alive.