JEFFERSON, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials have identified a man and a teenage boy killed when an ultralight plane crashed into a river in southern Wisconsin.
Jefferson County Sheriff Paul Milbrath says the pilot, 51-year-old David Plambeck of Edgerton, and his passenger, 16-year-old Max Burlingame of Fort Atkinson, died when the aircraft went down in the Rock River near Jefferson shortly after taking off from Fort Atkinson Airport Tuesday night.
Federal aviation officials will investigate.
