- November 17, 2024
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The Oct. 3 plane crash that killed Palm Coast pilot Raymond A. Miller, the plane’s sole occupant, happened after the experimental aluminum plane lost power, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The report, released Thursday, Oct, 23, is “preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors,” according to the report.
The report says that a witness who lived about 2.5 miles south of the crash spotted the plane between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. The plane, according to the report, “was approximately 1,000 feet above the ground, and flying to the north when it experienced a sudden, complete loss of engine power.”
The plane, according to the report, then “turned to the left and completed two circular patterns before disappearing from (the witness’) view.” The witness didn’t hear any engine noise or other sounds that would have led him to suspect a crash, so he "assumed that the pilot of the airplane performed a successful emergency landing to a nearby former golf course," according to the report.
The airplane was a Sonex-Waiex kit plane Miler had built himself. It had an 80-horsepower engine and had received an FAA special airworthiness certificate Jan. 15, 2013, according to the report.
To view the preliminary NTSB report, click here.
