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5 Injured in Kit Plane Crash through Publix Roof


What: Seawind 3000 kit plane built by Larry E. Sapp
Where: Northgate Shopping Center in DeLand Florida
When: April 2, 2012, 7:20 pm
Who: 2 aboard, 5 injured
Why: Taking off from Deland Municipal-Sidney H. Taylor Field Airport, the small kit plane developed engine problems and crashed into a Publix market in the Northgate Shopping Center on International Speedway Boulevard on Monday. The pilot and passenger are in critical condition. Brendan Beitler, a Stetson University student is in stable condition. Cordova and Morris Beitler were also injured.

A fire occurred when the fuel tanks burst. Three individuals in the store were injured. The store has been closed, and 175 employees are working at other Publix. The city has issued a demolition permit.

The plane is made of composite material and was amateur-built in 2002.

The pilot was Kim Presbrey, an attorney from Chicago who is in the intensive care unit at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Presbry is managing partner of Presbrey & Associates Thomas Rhoades from Illinois was the passenger.

What remains of the melted aircraft has been loaded on a flatbed trailer.

Video shot by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office above the North DeLand Publix supermarket shortly after the kit plane crashed into the supermarket roof.

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