ST. CHARLES COUNTY â The pilot of a light airplane was killed Sunday when the plane, which he had built himself, crashed in a farm field while he was making a test flight before taking a friend on a flight.
The pilot was alone in the plane. Authorities identified him as David E. Lucas, 52, of Chesterfield, an 18-year veteran of the Creve Coeur Fire Department as a firefighter, emergency medical technician and ladder truck driver.
Sgt. Kevin Jett of the St. Charles County sheriff's office said the pilot had taken off from Creve Coeur Airport late Sunday morning and crashed shortly after 11 a.m. The crash site was about 1,000 feet off Greens Bottom Road, near Katy Trail State Park and the Missouri River in the Harvester area of St. Charles County.
No distress signal was sent from the two-seat Acrosport II biplane before it plunged to the ground, Jett said.
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The pilot was alone in the plane. Authorities identified him as David E. Lucas, 52, of Chesterfield, an 18-year veteran of the Creve Coeur Fire Department as a firefighter, emergency medical technician and ladder truck driver.
Sgt. Kevin Jett of the St. Charles County sheriff's office said the pilot had taken off from Creve Coeur Airport late Sunday morning and crashed shortly after 11 a.m. The crash site was about 1,000 feet off Greens Bottom Road, near Katy Trail State Park and the Missouri River in the Harvester area of St. Charles County.
No distress signal was sent from the two-seat Acrosport II biplane before it plunged to the ground, Jett said.
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