JOHN T Walton, the eleventh-richest person in the world and an heir to the Wal-Mart empire, has died in an air accident. The 58-year-old, worth an estimated **10.4bn, was piloting his home-made single-seater aircraft when it crashed soon after take-off near his home in Wyoming.
Posted June 28, 2005
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