
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, July 15, 1990                   TAG: 9007150236
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: E12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: DISPUTANTA                                LENGTH: Short

SEARCHERS FIND PLANE, DEAD PILOT

Searchers on Saturday found the body of a West Virginia man in the wreckage of his single-engine plane that crashed in a heavily wooded area of Sussex County on Thursday.

A Coast Guard helicopter from Elizabeth City, N.C., spotted the wreckage of the Beechcraft 35 about 11 a.m., said David Carter of the Appalachian Search and Rescue Conference.

Carter said rescue workers were lowered by winch to the ground where they found the body of Chris Lake, 27, an experienced pilot who had been flying alone from Holly Ridge, N.C., to his home in Fairmont, W.Va.

The plane was about 200 yards from a high-tension line and less than a half mile from where fragments of the plane were found in woods Friday, Carter said.

Lt. Linda Utting of the Civil Air Patrol said officials of the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were at the wreckage trying to determine the cause of the crash.

by CNB