80-year-old pilot killed in NE Georgia crash

An 80-year-old pilot was killed when his plane went down Monday evening in northeast Georgia, according to an official.

Woodrow Howard Minish of Commerce was the only person on the single-engine plane when it crashed about 7:20 p.m. near Settlement Road in Commerce, Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum said.

"A witness stated that it appeared the plane went up from a private landing strip,” Mangum said, “and as soon as it got up, circled and maybe headed back to the landing strip and headed down into a patch of trees, a nosedive."

The FAA, the state Emergency Management & Homeland Security Agency and local officials are investigating.

According to the FAA website, Minish received his commercial pilot’s license in March 2010.

No other details were released.

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