One man has been reported dead following the plane crash in Columbia.
The plane left the Greenville Downtown Airport around 10 a.m. on Wednesday and crashed into a house in the Rosewood area of Columbia approximately 40 minutes later.
The home caught on fire and was put out by local firefighters. One person onboard the plane died as a result of the crash.
The Richland County Coroner's office reported the man was identified as 62-year-old Farhad Rostampour.
Previously reported:
The FAA says the single-engine plane that crashed into the side of a house in Columbia yesterday had left Greenville's downtown Airport about forty minutes earlier.
Its pilot was apparently trying to land at a private airport where fog had reduced visibility to barely a quarter-mile.
The crash set a house on fire in the Rosewood neighborhood near the University campus, but a woman who was inside escaped injury.
The Richland County Coroner is withholding the pilot's identity for now. Neighbors say his early-model Beechcraft Bonanza was so badly damaged it was hardly recognizable as an airplane.
The National Transportation Safety Board will join the investigation today.
