Emergency crews responded to a fatal plane crash near the Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
The Titusville Fire Department confirmed the 10:16 a.m. crash killed the lone passenger, the pilot who had yet to be positively identified Monday because of the severity of the fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cWitnesses reported that the aircraft struck a power line before crashing onto the roadway,\u201d the fire department stated in a press release. \u201cThe individual\u2019s identity will be released following positive identification and notification of next of kin.\u201d<\/p>\n
The crash was just short of the airport\u2019s runway on the side of the State Road 405 between Sisson Road and South Washington Avenue.<\/p>\n
The National Transportation Safety Board said it would investigate the crash and identified the aircraft as a Mooney M20F, which is a four-seat, propeller-driven plane.<\/p>\n
Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration were already on scene along with Florida Department of Transportation, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Brevard County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Officials with the Titusville Police Department said both eastbound and westbound lanes of Columbia Boulevard would remain closed for an extended period while the investigation continued, while also allowing for a specialized company to come from Jacksonville and remove the aircraft.<\/p>\n
That is the stretch of highway just north of the airport and west of the NASA Causeway leading over the Indian River to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.<\/p>\n
Power remained out for the area and Florida Power & Light estimated repairs and restoration would take several hours.<\/p>\n
Valiant Air Command, which operates the Warbird Museum and flies aircraft out of the airport said in a social media post that none of their aircraft, crew members, staff or volunteers were involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews responded to a fatal plane crash near the Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville on Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[315,28,114,266,115,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-393075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-brevard-county","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}