Rangeley Fire Chief Mike Bacon told the Sun Journal that Maine Warden Service plane crashed around 11 a.m.

Piccard never intended the vehicle for commercial use, but instead envisioned it as a way to raise awareness for sustainable energy by building the first solar-powered plane capable of circumnavigating the globe.

Only the pilot was on board at the time, the Maine Warden Service confirmed. The crash is being investigated by the FAA and NTSB.

"He was finally going to be able to fulfill his goal of taking care of us and starting our life with our children,” his wife said

A Maine game warden pilot, Joshua Tibbetts, 50, died when his Cessna 185F Skywagon crashed in Avon, Maine, on Tuesday morning. Witnesses reported the plane struggling against heavy winds and appearing out of control before it crashed into a mountain.

Two pilots ejected safely from T-38 Talon II aircraft during a training flight Tuesday, according to a statement from Columbus Air Force Base, Miss.

Between its maiden flight in 1964 and its retirement in 1999, the U.S. Air Force lost 12 of its Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft to non-combat accidents — but only one of those 12 crashes was fatal.

Both engines were intentionally shut down and there was a cockpit struggle before a China Eastern Airlines jet slammed into a mountain in 2022.