The pilot of a single-engine aircraft was killed Thursday when he crashed right into a parking zone on the Lake Lanier Islands Resort in Buford, Georgia, about 60 miles north of Atlanta.

The crash occurred at round 5:15 p.m. The pilot, Howard Lee Joe, 60, of Dunwoody, Georgia, was the one particular person onboard the aircraft, the Corridor County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in a submit on Fb. Nobody on the bottom was injured.

A purported video of the aftermath taken by a witness, despatched to a WAGA-TV reporter and posted on X, exhibits the wreckage burning and the parking zone nonetheless smoldering.

Mr. Joe had taken off in his Beechcraft Bonanza from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Chamblee, Georgia, simply over 38 miles southwest of Lake Lanier at 5 p.m., in keeping with flight monitoring web site FlightAware.

The crash is now being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and Nationwide Transportation Security Board, the sheriff’s workplace stated.