The small plane that crashed in a field near I-70 in Harmony Twp. on Sunday, resulted in the death of the pilot, 24-year-old Jordan A. Spier of Wilmington, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Witnesses reported seeing the plane, a Macleod homebuilt fixed wing single-engine experimental plane crash after taking off from a private airstrip at a residence in the 300 block of Titus Avenue. The pilot was the only occupant of the plane and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Oct. 16, 2016:
Eric Hackney, 43, and Jesse Loy, 36, both of Punta Gorda, Fla., were killed when their amateur airplane crashed in Warren County.
Hackney and Loy were flying from Florida to visit friends in Warren County when their plane went down in woods along the Little Miami River.
The crash scene is in a remote, wooded area, east of Lebanon in Turtlecreek Twp., on property near a Church of God camp between the YMCA camp and Moore-Saur Road.
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ATVs and boats were used to get to the site and a fire was put out without it spreading beyond the crash area.
July 22, 2016:
Levon King, 81, and his wife, Gloria King, 85, died when their experimental aircraft crashed in a cornfield in Harmony Twp. The plane crashed seven miles east of Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport.
The couple were flying home to Michigan from Georgia, relatives said, when the RV-9A plane that Levon King built himself went down.
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