Crime & Safety
Pilot Killed In Wesley Chapel Plane Crash Identified
The pilot in Tuesday's plane crash has been identified as 61-year-old Thomas Saxon of Madeira Beach.
WESLEY CHAPEL, FL —The Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s Office reported that the pilot killed in a small plane crash in Wesley Chapel Tuesday has been identified as 61-year-old Thomas Saxon of Madeira Beach.
The Federal Aviation Administration is still investigating the cause of the crash.
According to Pasco County Fire Rescue, the single-engine Beechcraft plane crashed at 11:30 in a neighborhood backyard in the Grand Oaks subdivision. No one else was injured.
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The plane was headed to the Tampa North Flight and Rental Center landing strip off Wesley Chapel Boulevard when it crashed.
Saxon was a skydiver, former Madeira Beach city commissioner and vice president of Logical Choice Aviation N711ja.
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