A personal aircraft flying from Virginia to the South Carolina Lowcountry this week crashed in a marshy area of the ACE Basin, according to online aviation reports.
Christopher Cleaver of Williamsburg, Va., was flying the 2017 Rutan Long EZ, a two-seat, long-range experimental plane, according to a brief online report from the Federal Aviation Administration . There were no fatalities.
The FAA reports that the plane “crashed for unknown reasons and became submerged in a marsh approximately 9 miles (north-northeast) of the Beaufort Executive Airport,” which is a small, regional airport on Lady’s Island. The agency classified the non-fatal incident as an accident and listed damage as substantial.
The plane appears to have ended its flight around 4:20 p.m. Nov. 19 near the Ashepoo Rive

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