BATH - A single-engine plane crashed at night in woods in rural western New York, killing a Cornell University faculty member.
The fixed-wing Cessna went down early Tuesday in the town of Urbana southeast of Keuka Lake and was recovered by state police that evening, Steuben County authorities said Wednesday.
The 1973-model plane stopped to refuel at around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday in Jamestown and an airport alert was issued when it failed to arrive in Ithaca later that morning, Federal Aviation Administration official Jim Peters told the Star-Gazette of Elmira.
The cause of the crash, which destroyed the aircraft, was not immediately disclosed.
The pilot, the only person on board, was identified as Sergio Servetto, an assistant professor in Cornell's school of electrical and computer engineering, the Ivy League school in Ithaca said.
According to a personal Web site, Servetto, 39, a native of Argentina, earned a master's degree and a doctorate in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and joined the Cornell faculty in 2001.
The 1973-model plane stopped to refuel at around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday in Jamestown and an airport alert was issued when it failed to arrive in Ithaca later that morning, Federal Aviation Administration official Jim Peters told the Star-Gazette of Elmira.
The cause of the crash, which destroyed the aircraft, was not immediately disclosed.
The pilot, the only person on board, was identified as Sergio Servetto, an assistant professor in Cornell's school of electrical and computer engineering, the Ivy League school in Ithaca said.
According to a personal Web site, Servetto, 39, a native of Argentina, earned a master's degree and a doctorate in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and joined the Cornell faculty in 2001.
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