What: small single-engine RV-6A kit plane. The pilot was commuting from Tennessee to his job as a project engineer for Conoco-Phillips in Borger, Texas, He flew out of Fayette County Airport, 38 miles east of Memphis.
Where: southeast Muskogee neighborhood, Oklahoma
When: Monday
Who: Pilot Ronald Dickey was killed
Why: Avoided a nursing home and senior apartment village before crashing in a large vacant lot between two houses. The plane hit the ground at a steep angle and that "the engine and forward fuselage were buried in an impact crater approximately 4 feet deep" The preliminary report indicated that the plane's engine was running and sputtering at the time of impact.
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Pilot's intended route to Amarillo.
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