A pilot has died from injuries he sustained from a small plane crash near Highgate in St Mary, Jamaica on Friday morning.
He has been identified as pilot and engineer Dudley Beek.
Reports are that one passenger was onboard. The passenger is said to be recovering well at hospital.
According to reports, Beek was unresponsive when he arrived at the University Hospital of the West Indies. It is reported that the small aircraft was en route from Tinson Pen to Boscobel in his Eurocoupe.
The former Jamaica Defence Force officer built his first hangar at the Ian Flemming airport in the 1970s in Boscobel, St Mary.
According to reports, there are at least four generations of pilots in his family, starting with his grandfather.
His father, Victor Beek, is said to be the first commanding officer of the Jamaica Defence Force air wing.
