Plane in Fatal Crash in Wisconsin Previously Owned by Montecito Man

MONROE, Wis. (KEYT) – Two men have died after a single-engine plane, previously owned by local real estate developer Peter T. Lewis, crashed outside of Monroe Municipal Airport in southern Wisconsin Monday evening.

The identities of the men who died in the crash, besides that they are both from Wisconsin, have not been publicly released.

On Tuesday, Lewis reached out to Your News Channel to confirm he had sold the plane that crashed earlier this month.

The crash was first reported on Nov. 24, around 5:15 p.m. local time, just north of the local airport and Highway 59 reported WISC-TV.

According to the local CBS affiliate, a deputy with the Green County Sheriff's Office arrived at the scene and spotted flames at the quarry and burning construction equipment as well as a debris field from the crash of the single-engine aircraft.

The fixed-wing airplane, a Socata TBM 700, seats seven and was registered to real estate developer Peter T. Lewis who lives in Montecito detailed the Federal Aviation Registry page for the aircraft.

The flight departed Whittman Regional Airport in Winnebago County, Wisconsin and was expected at Monroe Municipal Airport by Monday evening.

An employee at Monroe Municipal Airport shared with Your News Channel that he believed one of the passengers on the fatal flight was a local pilot.

The crash is now under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.