43-year-old Raymond John Ackley was the pilot of a plane that crashed on Interstate 85 in Charlotte, NC. Ackley’s plane crashed into a tractor-trailer on Interstate 85 in Lexington Wednesday 02/16/2022 where he died officials said.
The crash happened about 5:10 p.m. on southbound I-85 at mile marker 88, troopers said. Ackley had taken off from Lexington Airport, just west of I-85, when his Beechcraft Baron aircraft smashed into the rear of a Freightliner 18-wheeler driven by 41-year-old Concord resident Barrin Lamont Davis, according to the Highway Patrol.
Davis was taken to Lexington hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, troopers said.