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Update: Details on Orange County fatal plane crash

Orange CountyAt 4:31 p.m. Tuesday, Virginia State Police were notified of a plane crash in the 1,000 block of Tinder Lane in Orange County.  The plane was a 2007 Jihlavan KP 5 ASA, fixed-wing, single-engine aircraft, and was classified as experimental.

The crash location was at the at the intersection of Tinder Lane and Ridge Field Lane (both are private roads) located in a rural section of  Orange County near Mine Run.

There were two confirmed fatalities: the pilot, Charles Neal Caldwell, 57, of Apopka, Fla., and passenger as John Joseph Quinn Jr., 81, of Culpeper, Va.

The Virginia State Police along with the Medical Examiner’s Office, NTSB and FAA are investigating the incident to determine the causative factors that lead to the crash.

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