Costlow filed a flight plan from Richmond s airport to Festus, Missouri, according to the NTSB; however, the Indiana State Police said the day of the crash that his eventual destination was in Arizona, where he planned to visit family.
Shortly after takeoff, the Aeropro CZ A240, a light sport airplane, crashed in a winter wheat field about a half-mile southwest of the runway that angles from northeast to southwest, the report says. The airplane then caught fire.
A motorist contacted authorities at 7:49 a.m. that an airplane was burning, the report said. There are no known witnesses to the plane s takeoff or the crash.
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