SCIOTO COUNTY, Ohio — A Georgia man is dead after his paraglider crashed in Scioto County on Sunday morning, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Troopers were called on a report of a paraglider crash off U.S. Route 52 near Earl Thomas Conley Park in West Portsmouth around 9:35 a.m.

OSHP said witnesses reported that the paraglider fell from the sky while flying over a field near the Ohio River.

The pilot, identified as 35-year-old Timothy Williams, of Byron, Georgia, sustained fatal injuries in the crash.

The crash remains under investigation.

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