A small plane crash in southern Indiana killed a prominent businessman and philanthropist Tuesday afternoon. The accident happened about a mile east of Washington near the Daviess County Airport. Authorities say something went wrong shortly after take-off when a twin-engine Beechcraft crashed into a farm field.
Bits and pieces of tangled metal filled the bean field where the plane went down in Daviess County. The wreckage gave only a hint that this was once a plane, but the amount of damage showed every indication that something bad happened to the plane and its pilot.
"At some point that aircraft started to go west and it went down in an open field and unfortunately the pilot was pronounced dead at the scene," Todd Ringle with Indiana State Police said.
Authorities aren't releasing a lot of details on what happened with this crash, but a witness said he saw the plane go over the shops at Boyd Grain, then he heard the engine rev up and then he heard a bang.
That bang turned out to be the plane smashing into the field. Emergency crews moved out to begin recovering the body. Their task made worse because the pilot was someone they knew well.
64-year-old Abe Knepp of Montgomery was a local businessman who doubled as a chaplain at the Daviess County Jail.
"He's made a lot of contributions to the local sheriff's department here and I know from talking to some of the deputies here. He's going to be greatly missed," Ringle said.
And now it's up to the investigators to find out why this plane went down in the field. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will be conducting an investigation into the crash. They are expected to arrive Wednesday
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