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LAFAYETTE COUNTY, Ark. - A pilot has died in an airplane crash in Lafayette County, Ark, on Sunday evening. According to Arkansas State Police Lieutenant Jamie Gravier, Christopher Bailey, 46, of Homer, was piloting a single-engine plane departing from a private airstrip five miles southeast of Lewisville, Ark. when it crashed near County Road 18 in a wooded area around 5 p.m. Bailey was the only person in the plane and no one else was injured. The FAA and NTSB from Little Rock are currently investigating the crash.