Plane Falls in Pieces to Golf Course

What: small plane, probably (but not definitively) Forney Aircoupe from the Avon Park airport
Where: among trees between the 10th, 12th and 14th fairways in Golf Hammock, a golf community west of Sebring in Highlands County
When: 11:30 a.m. Saturday
Who: Pilot James Weener, and passenger James Richer
Why: Witnesses saw black smoke, heard the plane’s engine over-revving, then the plane came apart and in fell in pieces from the sky. A witness said “Some small parts came off first, then the wing came off and the tail shot off. It just disintegrated in midair.”

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