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A Hermleigh woman is dead after a small, single-engine plane crash in Sweetwater Sunday. Lisa Bowman, 60, died Sunday after the plane she was in crashed just three miles north of Sweetwater. The aircraft was flying from Shreveport to Sweetwater. The Department of Public Safety said the pilot, 58-year-old Richard Bowman, also of Hermleigh, was switching fuel tanks when a malfunction occurred, causing the engine to stall. Richard Bowman was taken to Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital with non-incapacitating injuries.