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WILLISTON, Fla. (March 20) -- A single-engine plane and a kit-built
aircraft collided in clear, sunny skies Saturday over central Florida, killing
three people, authorities said.
A Williston woman who thought she heard a gunshot discovered the kit-built
plane upside down in a field near her house and called authorities, Levy
Sheriff's Office Capt. Evan Sullivan. When emergency responders arrived,
they found a second plane engulfed in flames in a dense wooded area several
hundred yards away.
"The fire was extremely intense and at the area of the Piper 32 crash an
oak tree caught on fire some 40 feet above ground," Sullivan said.
Debris from the planes was spread about a half-mile long and a
quarter-mile wide, Sullivan said. Two bodies were found in the Piper in the wooded
area and a 73-year-old man was discovered in the other plane.
Sullivan wouldn't release the victims' names, saying next of kin had to be
notified.
The kit-built aircraft, also known as an experimental plane, left from
Ocala, about 25 miles southeast of Williston, but Sullivan didn't know where
it was headed. The Piper took off from the Williston Municipal Airport and
it was not clear where it was going.
"There are a lot of unknowns right now," he said.
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http://www.ocala.com/article/20100320/ARTICLES/100329993?Title=Planes-crash-
in-midair-Ocala-pilot-among-three-dead
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Subject: RVSouthEast-List: Experimental Down - no more details yet
WILLISTON, Fla. (March 20) -- A single-engine plane and a kit-built aircraft
collided in clear, sunny skies Saturday over central Florida, killing three
people, authorities said.
A Williston woman who thought she heard a gunshot discovered the kit-built
plane upside down in a field near her house and called authorities, Levy
Sheriff's Office Capt. Evan Sullivan. When emergency responders arrived,
they found a second plane engulfed in flames in a dense wooded area several
hundred yards away.
"The fire was extremely intense and at the area of the Piper 32 crash an oak
tree caught on fire some 40 feet above ground," Sullivan said.
Debris from the planes was spread about a half-mile long and a quarter-mile
wide, Sullivan said. Two bodies were found in the Piper in the wooded area
and a 73-year-old man was discovered in the other plane.
Sullivan wouldn't release the victims' names, saying next of kin had to be
notified.
The kit-built aircraft, also known as an experimental plane, left from
Ocala, about 25 miles southeast of Williston, but Sullivan didn't know where
it was headed. The Piper took off from the Williston Municipal Airport and
it was not clear where it was going.
"There are a lot of unknowns right now," he said.
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