Seventeen-Year-Old Was The Only Person Aboard The Cessna 150

The 17-year-old pilot of a Cessna 150 was fatally injured last Monday when the plane went down in Washington County, AR.

According to a news release from the Washington County Sheriff's Office, a resident reported he witnessed an airplane crash in the area of Cove Creek South Rd (WC 285). Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies, along with Washington County Department of Emergency Management, Washington County Urban Search and Rescue, Air Evac, Central EMS, Strickler Fire Department, Prairie Grove Fire Department, West Fork Fire Department, Lincoln Fire Department, and Morrow Fire Department, responded to the area to search for the plane.

At 11:13 p.m., a Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputy located the airplane crash in a wooded area near 21000 Pierson Road. It’s been determined the airplane was a fixed wing single-engine Cessna 150G that had taken off from Drake Field Airport en route to a location in Texas with one person (the pilot) on board. One fatality was confirmed and the Washington County Coroner’s Office was called to the scene.

It is believed the pilot was Gabriel Hatton, 17, of McKinney, Texas. The body has been sent to the Arkansas State Medical Examiner’s Office to confirm positive identification, and next of kin has been notified.

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