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1 Dead In Skagit Airplane Accident
The Skagit County coroner has not yet identified the man who died when his twin-engine airplane crashed northwest of Burlington Wednesday night, officials said this morning.
Mike O'Connor, the regional duty officer for the Federal Aviation Administration said that the small plane crashed near the Skagit-Whatcom county line, killing the pilot, said.
The plane, a Beechcraft Baron, was en route from Bellingham International Airport to Ogden, Utah, around 6:40 p.m. when the air traffic controller in Auburn lost radio and radar contact with the plane, O'Connor said.
The plane crashed at 6:45 p.m., he said.
Skagit County Sheriff's deputies found the plane near the intersection of Chuckanut Drive and Sunset Road in Skagit County, O'Connor said.
The location is about five miles south of the border of Whatcom and Skagit counties.
O'Connor declined to say whether the victim was a man or a woman but the rumor is that the pilot was a man.
The FAA had representatives at the crash scene Wednesday night. O'Connor said the National Transportation Safety Board would be on scene this morning, investigating the cause of the crash.