Pilot whose plane crashed in rural nebraska over the weekend. Tim the louisiana man was suppose to land in sioux city. But was diverted to the wayne airport because of foggy conditions. Tonight. Well hear some of his final words to air Traffic Control. The pilot is belived to be chris birk of louisiana. Thats according to an area pilot and a coworker of the man. He was flying the cessna 172 when it crassunday evening. Birk is employed by performance contractors, which is the company doing construction on the Cf Industries expansion. One of birks coworkers tells abc 9 that chris family will hold his funeral back home this week. Jenna chris had last stopped in columbia, missouri to fuel up, when he ran into the bad weather. Tonight were sharing the last communication chris had with air Traffic Control before his plane crashed near pender. Approach this is you read me . Jenna chris birk was nearly at sioux Gateway Airport when he was denied because of low jenna he was airport in wayne, ne