The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed Sunday in southwestern Virginia reported losing an exterior panel shortly before the aircraft hit the ground, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.
Staff Report A small plane registered to a Sarasota resident crashed in eastern Hillsborough County on Sunday, killing two people. The single-engine aircraft went down about a mile north of State Road 60 and west of County Line Road. The call came in about 11:45 a.m., said J.D. Callaway, a spokesman for the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
By CHRISTOPHER O'DONNELL Vance Noles took off from the small airport at Wimauma on Wednesday morning, flying an aircraft he built himself from a kit. Noles, 72, was flying to Tennessee to pick up a friend in the single-engine, two-seat plane, a flight he had made several times before. But Noles never arrived.
Staff Report A small plane registered to a Sarasota resident crashed in eastern Hillsborough County today, killing two people. The single-engine aircraft went down about a mile north of State Road 60 and west of County Line Road. The call came in about 11:45 a.m., said J.D. Callaway, a spokesman for the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.