Authorities say the pilot who died in a small plane crash last week outside Carlsbad, New Mexico was a 27-year-old Texas man.
New Mexico State Police was quoted Monday by the Carlsbad Current-Argus saying that Michael Kozlovsky of Burnet was the pilot of the Cessna that crashed before noon Friday into a communications tower that caught on fire east of Carlsbad.
First responders found Kozlovsky's body at the scene.
The Federal Aviation Administration says on its website Kozlovsky was on a personal flight and had filed a flight plan with the Lubbock Flight Standards District Office in Texas. The circumstances of the crash were unknown.
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The plane was registered to Coast Helicopters of Pearland, Texas.
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