CARROLL COUNTY, VA. (THECOUNT) — Ralph Young, of Fayetteville, W.Va., has been identified as the victim in a Sunday morning small plane crash in Carroll County.
Young, 65, was piloting a yellow, single-engine 1941 Piper Cub when he went down near Cemetery Road on Fancy Gap Mountain around 3 a.m.
Police say at 2:10 a.m. on October 7, officers were alerted to a missing aircraft that was suspected of having crashed in Carroll County.
With the assistance of the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the fixed-wing, single-engine 1941 Piper was located off Cemetery Road on Fancy Gap Mountain around 3 a.m. source
Police say Young’s remains were located with the wreckage. Records show, he was making a round-trip flight from a private airstrip in Fayetteville, W.Va. to Elkin, N.C. and back to West Virginia, when the efatal crash occurred.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Anyone with possible information on the incident may contact police at 911.
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