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Thursday, December 6, 2007

Plane crash victim identified

A teen-age employee of a Georgia aviation company was identified today as the pilot who died when his plane crashed into the side of a synagogue in Augusta.

Ron Baker, 19, was flying a single-engine Piper Arrow when it crashed last night at Congregation Children of Israel's Walton Way Temple, according to the Associated Press.

Baker worked for Phoenix Air of Cartersville.

No one on the ground was injured.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.

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