SYLACAUGA, AL.
Timothy Ralph Abbott, 63, of Childersburg was killed Sunday night when his single-engine plane crashed at Sylacauga Municipal Airport. Abbott was the pilot and only person on board. The crashed occurred shortly after 5 p.m. between two runways at the airport.
Sylacauga Police Capt. Chris Carden said in a written statement the Police Department received a report of a plane being down near the vicinity of the runway around 5:15 p.m. Sunday. Patrol units located the aircraft and the pilot, who was pronounced dead at the scene by Talladega County Coroner Shaddix Murphy. Police units secured the scene of the crash until investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration arrived later that evening.
The fixed-wing plane was an experimental aircraft. The Aero Adventure Zephyr II was registered to Abbott. A spokeswoman for the FAA said although the plane was an experimental one, that doesn’t mean it was an experiment.
“Instead, it usually means that it’s an amateur build or a kit plane,” she said. “It wasn’t a production aircraft. The National Transportation Safety Board, or NTSB, will determine the probable cause since one person was killed. Normally the NTSB will post a preliminary report on their website in a week to 10 days.”
This is the second plane crash in the Sylacauga area in the past two months. In August, a Cessna 172K crashed into a wooded area near Billingsley Road. In that crash, the pilot and his passenger, said to be an instructor and student, were not injured. The plane crash was said to be a result of engine failure during takeoff.
he had a heart attack because it was my grandfather and my mom told me
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