A small plane exploded in midair when it was struck by lighting over eastern Mississippi Thursday afternoon, killing the pilot.
Witnesses told WCBI that the cockpit landed in a catfish pond after the lightning struck the plane during a thunderstorm. The debris field was spread over a 3/4 mile area of Noxubee County.
The single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza BE36 was enroute from St. Petersburg, Fla., to University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport in Norman, Okla., according to an Associated Press report.
