Very curious about why the number of persons on board this aircraft was in so much dispute among aviation web sites. Pic related is the Cessna 182 involved. Aircraft had taken off from Savannah Int'l airport, about 70 miles from site of crash.
Associated Press:
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article230860959.html
The Associated Press
May 26, 2019 04:32 PM, Updated 25 minutes ago
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga.
Authorities say a pilot killed in a single-engine plane crash along the Georgia coast was an 80-year-old man from South Carolina.
News outlets report police in Glynn County, Georgia, identified the pilot Sunday as Roger Crane of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Police say the small plane crashed Saturday on St. Simons Island after taking off from Savannah, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) away. No homes or bystanders were affected by the fiery crash, which blackened several trees amid the wreckage.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating to determine what caused the accident.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article230860959.html#storylink=cpy
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Police ID Pilot Killed in Coastal Georgia Plane Crash
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/breaking-plane-carrying-people-crashes-coastal-georgia/xSN6PLr5CvNSAoxYfOtO1M/
Police have identified the pilot who was killed in a plane crash at St. Simons Island Saturday morning.
Roger Crane, 80, of Bluffton, South Caroline, died when the single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area off Lawrence Road on the north end of St. Simons Island.
The aircraft, a Cessna 182, crashed in a wooded area near Lawrence Road just before 9:30 a.m., authorities said.
Glynn County police said the plane was traveling from Savannah to St. Simons. Crane is believed to have been the only person on board.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.
More on Crane:
https://1440wgig.iheart.com/content/2019-05-25-plane-owner-ided-victim-not-ided/
"Based on the information, the owner of the plane is an investment firm in Bluffton, SC called May River Investments. The principal owner of the firm is named Roger Crane, a Facebook profile for a Roger Crane shows, as its profile picture, a Cessna matching the tail number of the one deduced and its blue accents match the wreckage observed by this reporter."
US News & World Report saying only Crane was on board, as of 4:30 EDT today:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/georgia/articles/2019-05-26/pilot-killed-in-georgia-crash-identified-as-s-carolina-man
Crane was the owner of May River Capital/May River Investments LLC. Here is a letter he wrote to the newspaper in Hilton Head Island regarding boating safety on the May River. The May River runs straight inland from its ocean entrance at Harbour Town on Hilton Head past Daufuskie Island, to the town of Bluffton.
https://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article33535743.html
May River Investments shows an address listing of 30 Minuteman Drive, Okatie SC 29910. (Save yourself the dig; it's a beautiful home on a beautiful lot shaded by live oaks dripping with Spanish moss, with a dock on the May River, with his sailboat and fishing boat tied up on the dock. Pretty perfect.) Zillow estimate $1,022,088. Built 1996, 4242 sf.
May River Capital web site: https://mayrivercapital.com
"May River Capital is a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle-market industrial growth companies. May River invests in high-quality industrial growth businesses, including precision manufacturing, engineered products, specialized industrial services, and value-added industrial distribution businesses."
May River had just signed a lease for just under 5k sf of office space at One North Wacker Drive in Chicago:
"Private equity investment firm, May River Capital, a has leased 4,985 square feet and Heard Capital, a global asset management firm, has leased 3,277 square feet."
https://www.rejournals.com/chicago-s-one-north-wacker-signs-over-100,000-square-feet-of-new-leases-20190306
Could find no dubious connections with regard to Mr. Crane or May River Capital.
Is Muckety.com a defunct site now, anons?
Roger Harrison Crane:
https://www.mylife.com/roger-crane/e142608193548
United States Navy veteran, listed in this 2008 ship's newsletter account of a reunion of sailors of the USS Rankin, where he served from 1957-1959 with the rank of MR3:
https://www.ussrankin.org/HTMLobj-2951/Newsletter12LetterSize.pdf
This anon could find no photographs of Mr. Crane.
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