In a tragic turn of events that shook the quiet skies above central Indiana, a lone pilot perished when their small plane nosedived into a field near Shelbyville Municipal Airport. The fatal accident unfolded Wednesday, approximately 25 miles southeast of the hustle of Indianapolis, around 5 p.m., per NBC Chicago.
The pilot was manning a Cirrus SR22, a craft embraced by the skies as one among the ranks of small, personal aircrafts, and at the moment of the crash, the pilot was the aircraft's sole occupant, authorities said. Neither the plane's starting point nor its intended resting place was immediately clear, site according to WANE.com.
