ALAMEDA COUNTY (KRON) — The pilot in an Alameda County plane crash that happened Thursday has been identified by the Alameda County coroner’s bureau as 66-year-old Andrew Morse
Morse, a Lafayette man, was on his way to Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose from Concord in a single-engine Cessna 210 when the plane went down in a rural area of Alameda County, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, coroner’s bureau and sheriff’s office.
The plane was overdue in San Jose Thursday and the FAA initiated a search that led the Civil Air Patrol to the crash site Friday morning, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor and Eric Peterson, acting director of the Santa Clara County Airports, said.
Morse was the only person on board when the plane went down, according to Alameda County Sheriff’s Sgt. J.D. Nelson.
The coroner is still determining whether Morse died in the crash or whether something else killed him and the plane crashed, an official with the coroner’s bureau said.