Three killed Oct. 5. in airplane crash near Williston, FL
Williston, Florida - On Sunday afternoon, October 5, 2025, law enforcement agencies responded to a peanut field, owned by Fugate Farms, southwest of Williston, due to an airplane crash in which all three people on board were killed. Agencies included the Levy County Sheriff’s Office, Williston Fire Department and the Levy County Department of Public Safety. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) also responded to the locations, and the NTSB will continue the investigation of the crash.
The aircraft is a 1976 Beechcraft Baron 58 that crashed on approach to the Williston Regional Airport, owned by 424 Ventures, LLC, of St. Petersburg, Florida.
According to flightaware.com, the airplane departed St. Petersburg’s Albert Whitted Airport Saturday morning, October 4, 2025, and landed a couple of hours later at the Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
On Sunday morning, October 5, 2025, the airplane departed the Bowling Green airport for a short flight to the Lebanon-Springfield Airport in Springfield, Kentucky. At 1:19 p.m. Sunday, the plane left the Springfield airport, headed for the Williston Regional Airport, and had been in-flight for slightly more than 2.5 hours when it began a descent from 17,000 feet and leveled off at about 1,400 feet and then began descending again, and disappeared from the radar about 4:10 p.m., about a mile northwest of the Williston Regional Airport, near NE 30th Street.
A thunderstorm was reported in the area, near the time of the crash.