Pilot dies in crop-dusting accident (Updated)

Search teams found the remains of a crashed crop dusting plane, and the body of the pilot, near Hwy 91 in Mitchell County, on Monday.

A Georgia Civil Air Patrol official told GPB News that the plane, piloted by 22-year-old Michigan resident Kyle Boss was found at about 9:30 am.

The single-engined Bellanca was en route from Bainbridge to Eufaula, Alabama when it went down, sometime Friday afternoon.

CAP air and ground teams from Georgia and Alabama teamed with searchers from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Georgia State Patrol, and local county Emergency Services workers to locate the missing aircraft, according to CAP Maj. Michael Howington.

Boss was training for his pilot's license in crop dusting from a nearby agricultural school at the time of the crash, according to the officer.

Boss's family were notified Monday afternoon. No other details of the circumstances of the accident were available as of press time.

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(With The Associated Press)

CAP searching for missing plane

The Georgia and Alabama Wing of the Civil Air Patrol have found no sign of a crop duster plane that vanished from radar Friday afternoon. The plane was reported missing on a flight from Bainbridge, Georgia, to Eufaula, Alabama.

The pilot of the Bellanca single-engine aircraft was identified as 22-year-old Kyle Boss. Authorities are concerned the plane may have gone down in Lake Eufaula.

Tom McGonegal, a Mission Chaplain with CAP, said the search will continue today with up to seven Cessna planes combing a 50 to 60 mile radius from Weedon Field in Eufaula to Bainbridge, Georgia.

(The Associated Press)

Brunswick family identified in VA plane crash

A couple from Georgia and their teenage daughter have been identified as the victims of a single-engine plane crash just outside the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia in Thursday.

Authorities identified the dead as 46-year-old pilot Lawrence Frederick Chapman the Third, of Brunswick, Ga.; his wife, 45-year-old Robin Dee Chapman; and 16-year-old daughter Katie M- Chapman.

The 1964 Piper fixed-wing plane departed from Georgia bound for Winchester and went down in a wooded area near Syria, which is about 15 miles west of Culpeper, Virginia. The plane was registered out of Florida.

State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said on Saturday that authorities were still removing the wreckage from the remote area.

Police said Federal Aviation Administration authorities called state police after they lost contact with the aircraft at 9 pm. Thursday.

The Civil Air Patrol joined state police searching for the plane. Officials detected the aircraft's emergency location transmitter at 10 am Friday and discovered the wreckage about two hours later.

The National Transportation Safety Board and state police are investigating the cause of the crash.
(Associated Press)