Authorities now say the pilot of an ultra-light aircraft that crashed south of St Joseph Monday night has died.

Sergeant Sheldon Lyon of the Missouri State Highway Patrol tells us Craig Combs, 55, of St Joseph passed away at Heartland Regional Medical Center where he was taken for treatment after the accident.

The crash happened at a private airfield near Dekalb, Missouri of Route-JJ.

Lyon says the FAA has been notified and will take over the investigation into the crash.

“It looks like this tree was in close proximity to the runway, and I don’t know if a breeze pushed him over there or what, but he was about one hundred feet off the ground when he came into contact with that tree, so the aircraft fell a good distance to the ground,” Lyon said.