14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Thursday, September 08, 2011 in West Liberty, OH
Aircraft: CIRRUS DESIGN CORP SR22, registration: N159JW
Injuries: 1 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel, and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On September 8, 2011, about 1122 eastern daylight time (edt), a Cirrus SR22, N159JW, sustained substantial damage when it was partially consumed by a postimpact fire after it impacted a cornfield near West Liberty, Ohio. The private pilot, the sole occupant, received fatal injuries. The airplane was registered to Windsor Ltd LLC and was operated by the pilot as a personal flight under the provisions of the 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. No flight plan was filed. The flight originated about 1116 from the Bellefontaine Regional Airport (EDJ), Bellefontaine, Ohio.
At 1120, the surface weather observation at EDJ, located about 6 nautical miles (nm) to the north of the accident site, was: winds 360 degrees at 3 knots; visibility 3 miles; overcast ceiling at 600 feet; temperature 16 degrees Celsius (C), dew point 16 degrees C; altimeter 29.91 inches of mercury (Hg).
The 51-year-old pilot held a private pilot certificate with a single-engine land rating. He was not an instrument rated pilot. He held a third class medical certificate that was issued on August 29, 2010.
Jeffrey S. Watson
Courtesy WBNS-TV
West Liberty Fire Chief John Esch emerges from a cornfield along Township Road 192 in Liberty Township after evaluating the scene of single-engine plane crash that killed local businessman Jeffrey S. Watson Thursday about 11:20 a.m.
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WEST LIBERTY -- Ohio State Highway Patrol is looking into what caused a small plane to crash in southern Logan County Thursday morning -- killing 51-year-old pilot Jeffrey S. Watson, of Bellefontaine.
The OSHP confirmed the plane went down near West Liberty, near Township Road 192 and north of Road 193, just after 11 a.m. There was no word on what caused the crash.
Along with OSHP, the West Liberty Police Department, Logan County Sheriff’s Office and Troopers from the Marysville Post, along with other emergency medical and fire crews, responded to the crash.
Public safety crews cut a swath through a cornfield to reach the crash site. Wreckage from the plane could be seen scattered across the area. They discovered the 2004 Cirrus --- described as a fixed wing, single-engine aircraft -- engulfed in flames.
OSHP says Watson was ejected from the aircraft upon impact and declared dead at the scene by the Logan County coroner. He’d departed from the Bellefontaine Municipal Airport and was bound for the James A. Rhodes Airport in Jackson County.
Carol Thurman told ABC6/Fox28 News' Tom Bosco that she ran toward the site just as soon as he heard the plane's impact.
"It come over this way ... here. And they were wondering why it didn’t land in here.”
Thurman says she and her husband have lived in the area for more than 40 years. She said she thought she heard an ATV running near her home about 11:30 a.m.
"He heard the noise coming over from the East. Sputtering, some sputtering ... It kept getting louder, kind of cutting in and out ... and then we heard the thud.”
That thud turned out to be much bigger than Thurman expected.
“I was hoping I would find somebody alive," she said. “I got my boots, and a sheet, and my rubber gloves. I’m a nurse. And my first instinct was to go see if I could do anything to help.”
Behind a wall of corn stalks, smoke and fire poured out from the site of where the plane went down.
Thurman says she couldn't see the crash until she got close. Then came word of tragedy.
"I could tell that he wasn’t with us anymore, so the only thing I could do was cover him up with a sheet.”
No official reason for what caused the crash has been given. The incident remains under investigation.
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WEST LIBERTY, Ohio (WDTN) - The Logan County Sheriff's Department has now identified the victim of a fatal plane crash Thursday near West Liberty.
Jeffrey S. Watson, 51, of Bellefontaine was ejected from the aircraft when it crashed in a field off of Township Road 192 north of Township Road 193 in Liberty Township.
Investigators say Watson left the Bellefontaine, Municipal Airport enroute to the Rhodes Airport in Jackson County just before 11:30am.
His Cirrus single engine aircraft was engulfed in flame in a cornfield when emergency personnel arrived.
The Federal Aviation Administration is on the scene investigating the cause.
WEST LIBERTY, Ohio (WDTN) - The Logan County Sheriff's Department has now identified the victim of a fatal plane crash Thursday near West Liberty.
Jeffrey S. Watson, 51, of Bellefontaine was ejected from the aircraft when it crashed in a field off of Township Road 192 north of Township Road 193 in Liberty Township.
Investigators say Watson left the Bellefontaine, Municipal Airport enroute to the Rhodes Airport in Jackson County just before 11:30am.
His Cirrus single engine aircraft was engulfed in flame in a cornfield when emergency personnel arrived.
The Federal Aviation Administration is on the scene investigating the cause.
BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio — The pilot who died in a single engine plane crash Thursday has been identified as 51 year old Jeffrey Watson, a businessman from Bellefontaine. Investigators say Watson was the only person on board. Logan County coroners pronounced him dead at the scene. Neighbors say they heard the 2004 Cirrus engine revving erratically just before the plane went down in a corn field near West Liberty. The FAA has been called in to investigate the crash.
WEST LIBERTY, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say at least one person has died in a small plane crash in western Ohio.
Logan County sheriff's and federal authorities say the plane went down near a township road intersection in West Liberty shortly after 11 a.m. EDT. They didn't immediately know whether there was more than one person aboard the plane or what kind of aircraft it was. They also didn't immediately know where the plane had left from.
WEST LIBERTY, Ohio - The pilot of a small plane was killed Thursday morning when the aircraft crashed into a cornfield.
The crash occurred at about 11:20 a.m. just west of Township Road 192, just west of West Liberty, 10TV's Andy Hirsch reported.
According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Jeff Watson died in the crash. He was 51 years old.
Firefighters said that the plane was engulfed when they arrived at the scene.
Authorities were working to determine where the plane took off from and its destination.
Carol Thurman lives near the cornfield and heard the plane before it crashed, Hirsch reported.
“Almost like a 4-wheeler cutting in and out,” said Thurman. “It didn't sound like an airplane. It just kept sputtering and sputtering, as if it was going to start."
Thurman’s husband called 911. Thurman grabbed supplies and ran to the cornfield to see if she could help, Hirsch reported.
“(I) grabbed my boots and I grabbed a sheet. I'm a nurse, and I think my nurse instinct took over, and some rubber gloves and I ran out through the corn field," Thurman said.
Thurman made her way to the pilot, who was ejected from the aircraft. She said she knew there was no saving him.
“He was already gone, so I just basically covered him up with a sheet,” Thurman said.
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration said officials from the National Transportation Safety Board will be at the scene of the crash Friday morning.
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Jeff Watson was one very good man
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