Louisville Pilot Killed In Plane Crash

{Hardinsburg, Kentucky}...Breckinridge County coroner Tim Bandy has identified the pilot who died in a crash about 2:30 P.M. Saturday when a single engine propeller Lancair airplane crashed in a Hardinsburg field as 54 year old Donald E. Klein, Jr. of Louisville. Brekinridge County Sheriff Todd Pate says three planes left the Rough River airport in Grayson County at the same time Saturday. After take-off, the county dispatch got a call from the two other pilots saying they had been in contact with the pilot that was in distress. The two pilots lost contact with Klein and landed at the Hardinsburg airport to try to help him. A resident in the area called dispatch and said they saw the experimental plane go down. The wreckage was found by a hunter on Barry Elliott's family's land. Elliott, a former pilot, says neighbors say Klein was flying low and slow like nearly in a power out situation, and it appears Klein may have been attempting to do an emergency landing and, with the wind direction and the path he was traveling, he was going to go into a pond so he was going to dodge the pond. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters says the aircraft sustained substantial damage.