Reported by: Mel Carlock wtva.com
Last Update: 3:15 pm
MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WTVA) -- Itawamba County authorities say the pilot of a plane that apparently crashed in Monroe County this morning is okay.
Sheriff Chris Dickinson tells WTVA.com the pilot contacted his E911 dispatchers shortly before 10 o'clock.
Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told WTVA's Robert Byers the crash site was located just minutes after National Guard helicopters joined the search.
Cantrell tells WTVA's Justin Lewis the pilot is identified as Greg Huggins.
Northeast Mississippi Medical Center reports Huggins remains in critical condition from injuries suffered during the plane crash.
Dickinson says the man suffered a cut to the head.
Dickinson says the pilot says he was the only person on board.
Sheriff Cecil Cantrell tells WTVA.com that a plane disappeared from radar Tuesday morning.
He says aerial searches had to wait until the cloud ceiling lifted.
WTVA News has learned it is a single engine plane traveling from Ocala, Florida to Olive Branch, Mississippi.
The plane is owned by Buccaneer Aviation of Wilmington, Delaware.
The plane apparently disappeared from Memphis FAA radar around 7 o'clock Tuesday morning.
WTVA's Robert Byers is in Monroe County and will have the complete story on WTVA News at 5 with Justin Lewis reporting live from the crash site on WTVA News at 6.
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