Wed, Sep 03, 2014
Had Departed From Waukesha, WI En Route To Manassas, VA
The Coast Guard suspended its search at 11:30 a.m. Sunday for the pilot of a Cirrus SR22 airplane that went down Saturday approximately 51 miles southeast of Chincoteague Island.
A Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane crew searched until sunset Saturday and the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Beluga searched through the night until Sunday morning for wreckage or any sign of the pilot aboard the downed aircraft.
A good Samaritan fisherman in the vicinity of the crash recovered a wheel and an engine cowling thought to belong to the crashed plane and turned it over to the crew of Cutter Beluga. Both items are scheduled to be turned over to the NTSB.
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 5th District in Portsmouth received notification at approximately 2:40 p.m. EDT Saturday that the single-engine Cirrus aircraft with only the pilot aboard failed to land at Manassas Regional Airport as scheduled. Instead, the Cirrus remained at an altitude of approximately 13,000 feet and continued into restricted air space in the vicinity of Washington, D.C.
Two U.S. NORAD F-16 aircraft came alongside the Cirrus to investigate and observed the pilot to be unconscious in the cockpit. The F-16 airmen escorted the Cirrus on its course over the Eastern Shore of Virginia until it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Coast Guard launched an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and an HC-130 Hercules airplane crew from Air Station Elizabeth City in North Carolina and the crew of Cutter Beluga, homeported in Virginia Beach, to respond Saturday afternoon.
Television station WITI in Milwaukee reports that the plane was registered to Ronald Hutchinson of Brookfield, WI. The FAA's preliminary accident report indicates it was an SR22. The family said in a statement to the station that he had lost consciousness while flying the plane. According to the statement, he had been a pilot for nearly 40 years and had accumulated some 4,000 hours flying time.
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