The pilot is dead after a plane crashed in a Georgia residential neighborhood Thursday morning. WAGT TV reports that the plane went down in an Augusta neighborhood just after 7AM. The FAA says the Beechcraft 36 plane only had the pilot on board.
The pilot had taken off from Daniel Field and was returning there when the plane hit a tree and went down. A neighborhood resident told WAGT that he saw the flames erupt and called 911.
The Coroner's Office has not released the pilot's identity, as of the time of this report. The crash remains under investigation by the FAA and NTSB.