Plane Crash is Area's 4th in Less Than a Month

The crash of a small experimental airplane in a cow pasture just off U.S. 41 near the border of Hillsborough and Manatee counties is the area’s fourth in less than a month. The crash occurred early Sunday and left the pilot hospitalized. … On Jan. 12, pilot John Ardoyno from Wisconsin was killed in the crash of a Seawind 3000 aircraft, a single-engine, four-seat amphibian that went down on the New College of Florida campus. The passenger, William S. Jackson, from Michigan, died several days later from his severe burns.