MARYLAND Pilot's Body Pulled From Plane in Creek
The body of a Florida man, who was still strapped into the seat of his small, custom-built plane, was recovered yesterday from a creek outside Annapolis, where the plane crashed Saturday night.
William Gardner Knight, 56, of Delray Beach, Fla., was pronounced dead at the scene. Anne Arundel County police spokeswoman Carol Frye said that Knight had been scheduled to land at Lee Airport on Saturday night, when witnesses saw his plane nosedive into Beard Creek near the end of the runway.
"It could be months and months" before investigators determine the cause of the crash, Frye said.
Knight had planned to meet friends in the Washington area before flying on to New York in the experimental aircraft, a Burgess, Model RV-6, which had been professionally built from a kit. He was an experienced pilot who had flown in air shows across the country, police said.
Lee Airport has no tower, and small planes fly in and out "at all hours of the day and night," Frye said.
The body of a Florida man, who was still strapped into the seat of his small, custom-built plane, was recovered yesterday from a creek outside Annapolis, where the plane crashed Saturday night.
William Gardner Knight, 56, of Delray Beach, Fla., was pronounced dead at the scene. Anne Arundel County police spokeswoman Carol Frye said that Knight had been scheduled to land at Lee Airport on Saturday night, when witnesses saw his plane nosedive into Beard Creek near the end of the runway.
"It could be months and months" before investigators determine the cause of the crash, Frye said.
Knight had planned to meet friends in the Washington area before flying on to New York in the experimental aircraft, a Burgess, Model RV-6, which had been professionally built from a kit. He was an experienced pilot who had flown in air shows across the country, police said.
Lee Airport has no tower, and small planes fly in and out "at all hours of the day and night," Frye said.
MARYLAND Pilot's Body Pulled From Plane in Creek
The body of a Florida man, who was still strapped into the seat of his small, custom-built plane, was recovered yesterday from a creek outside Annapolis, where the plane crashed Saturday night.
William Gardner Knight, 56, of Delray Beach, Fla., was pronounced dead at the scene. Anne Arundel County police spokeswoman Carol Frye said that Knight had been scheduled to land at Lee Airport on Saturday night, when witnesses saw his plane nosedive into Beard Creek near the end of the runway.
"It could be months and months" before investigators determine the cause of the crash, Frye said.
Knight had planned to meet friends in the Washington area before flying on to New York in the experimental aircraft, a Burgess, Model RV-6, which had been professionally built from a kit. He was an experienced pilot who had flown in air shows across the country, police said.
Lee Airport has no tower, and small planes fly in and out "at all hours of the day and night," Frye said.
The body of a Florida man, who was still strapped into the seat of his small, custom-built plane, was recovered yesterday from a creek outside Annapolis, where the plane crashed Saturday night.
William Gardner Knight, 56, of Delray Beach, Fla., was pronounced dead at the scene. Anne Arundel County police spokeswoman Carol Frye said that Knight had been scheduled to land at Lee Airport on Saturday night, when witnesses saw his plane nosedive into Beard Creek near the end of the runway.
"It could be months and months" before investigators determine the cause of the crash, Frye said.
Knight had planned to meet friends in the Washington area before flying on to New York in the experimental aircraft, a Burgess, Model RV-6, which had been professionally built from a kit. He was an experienced pilot who had flown in air shows across the country, police said.
Lee Airport has no tower, and small planes fly in and out "at all hours of the day and night," Frye said.
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