SEQUIM, Wash. (AP) — A Clallam County sheriff’s spokesman says the owner of a small experimental plane and his passenger both died when the single-engine aircraft crashed near the Sequim Valley Airport.
Spokesman Jim Borte identified the plane owner and pilot as 68-year-old Carroll Larson of Sequim. He said the passenger was 61-year-old Robert Reandeau Sr., also of Sequim.
According to witnesses, the pilot was practicing “touch and go” landing maneuvers Friday afternoon before the plane nosed down near the end of the runway and crashed in a muddy field.
The two-seat Van’s RV8 was built in 2008.
Borte says both Larson and his passenger had hangar space at the airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.
