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ALBANY, GA -- A 31-year-old man has died in a plane crash in Brooks County.

Officials with the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office got the call around 2:50 Saturday afternoon.

71-year-old Larry Boiven from Bell, Florida was flying a 1941 Luscombe 8a Silvaire with 31-year-old Jared Willis Shilling.    

Sheriff Mike Dewey tells Fox 31 the two took off from Bell, Florida for the Thomasville Fly-In.

Shortly after taking off from Thomasville, they had engine problems and crashed near Dixie Road south of Quitman.

Shilling was pronounced dead at the scene, Boiven is in stable condition at Archbold Memorial Hospital.