Two people were killed, when a plane crashed in Central Florida on Tuesday. Although Florida authorities have not yet released the names of the victims, the 2009 single-engine Epic LT plane was involved in the crash, the plane left Willmar airport earlier in the day and it is owned by Independent Technologies Inc.
Ingalsbe has home in Spicer and Florida and frequently flies the plane from Willmar to his other home and business locations, including his home state of Nebraska.
When Independent Technologies headquarters in Blair were contacted the representative would not confirm any information about the crash and they told that the company has not prepared any statement.
Local sources said that businesswoman Deb Solsrud, who was an active community member in the New London-Spicer School District, has died in the crash.
A statement by district spokesperson Megan Field said that Solsrud died when the small plane crashed in Florida.
According to the ‘FlightAware’, which tracks flights online, a single-engine experimental plane with the Federal Aviation Administration registration of N669WR left Willmar Municipal Airport at 12:31 p.m. Tuesday, landed in Tennessee around 2:30 and then left around 3 p.m. for a three-hour flight to the Spruce Creek Fly-In residential community in Port Orange, Fla.
Volusia County sheriff’s office said, the plane crashed 6 pm in Spruce community narrowly missing two houses.
No one was injured on the ground, but the passenger along with pilot were killed.
The Daytona Beach News Journal reported that the pilot initially missed the approach. Eric Weiss, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, told the News-Journal that the plane “crashed on go-around after a missed approach.”
A witness reported the whole incident said, he saw the plane fly into the fog, and that the plane was “in an in flat spin when it came out of the fog.”
-AManDeep
