A pilot who volunteered to fly three rescue dogs to a facility crashed his plane in the mountains and died along with one of the pups.
Seuk Kim, 49, was operating a small plane from Maryland to Albany, New York, when the aircraft went down in the Catskill Mountains near the town of Windham shortly after 6pm on Sunday, according to the Greene County Sheriff’s Office.
On Monday, local authorities ‘discovered the wreckage of a single-engine Mooney M20 at Catskill State Park’ and ‘only the pilot was on board’, stated the Federal Aviation Administration.
Kim and one of the dogs were found dead at the scene, USA Today reported.
Another dog was found with two broken legs but alive, and the third dog was found later with minor injuries, the sheriff’s office wrote in an update on Facebook.
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