
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, October 11, 1994                   TAG: 9410110150
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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VICTIM HAD NO PILOT LICENSE

The pilot of the single-engine plane that crashed in Carroll County on Sunday was not licensed, state police said Monday.

Samuel Mark Lawrence of High Point, N.C., was tentatively identified as the pilot and only person traveling in the Cessna 172, police said. Family members told police that the 27-year-old did not have a pilot's license.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Joan Brown said the plane took off about 9:30 a.m. Sunday from Bluefield, W.Va., headed for Winston-Salem, N.C. It went down about 10 miles north of the North Carolina line off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Interstate 77, killing Lawrence.

The wreckage was discovered shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday, Brown said.

Police said the plane was registered to William E. Garris of Winston-Salem. They were not sure whether the pilot had authorization to fly Garris' plane.

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are continuing to investigate the crash, Brown said.

- Staff and wire reports

Keywords:
FATALITY

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