Authorities have released the name of the pilot killed in Friday afternoon’s plane crash in rural Franklin County. He is identified as 44-year-old David Colgazier of Latimer.

Colgazier was operating a single engine Cessna plane when it crashed two miles north of Beed’s Lake State Park near Hampton. A spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said the crash is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. There are no further details into the cause of the crash.

 

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