A pilot is dead after crashing a single engine plane in Okmulgee County. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says Gene Thompson was killed when the 2006 Cessna-172 he was flying crash near Preston into a grove of dense trees.
The 63-year-old Thompson was flying to Tulsa from Fort Worth, Texas when the plane went down about 5 p.m. on Friday. The wreckage was spotted by the Civil Air Patrol around 7:30 Friday evening. Thompson was the only person on board.
The FAA and the NTSB will investigate the cause of the crash.