OSHKOSH, Wis. – Two amateur pilots died when their kit-built light plane crashed in a soybean field and burst into flames. The victims were identified as Sean Tommervik, 37, of El Paso, Texas, and James Sullivan, 32, of Nashville, Tennessee. Although their Lancair ES had three seats, no one else was aboard. The crash was two miles from the giant Oshkosh AirVenture fly-in.
Lancair ES. About 90 of these craft were sold in kits for home assembly. The last kit was sold in 2012. Assembly generally took 2,000 hours.