Wisconsin pilot killed when vintage military-style jet crashes near Mayfield, Ky.

MAYFIELD, Ky. (Nov. 9) — A pilot from Wisconsin was killed Sunday afternoon when the older military-style jet he was flying went down in a field near the Mayfield-Graves County Airport, the Graves County Sheriff's Office said.

Dispatchers started getting calls about a downed plane at about 2:08 p.m., Sheriff Jon Hayden said. Crews found the aircraft burning in a field off Spence Chapel Road, near Interstate 69 and Kentucky Highway 131. The pilot was the only person on board and died at the scene, LEX18 reported.

The plane was an L-39 Albatros, a Cold War-era jet trainer that's now popular with private owners and air show pilots. The pilot and his daughter, also from Wisconsin, were each flying an L-39 home from an air show in Mississippi and had stopped in Mayfield to refuel, according to the sheriff's office.

Shortly after takeoff, the pilot radioed that he was having some kind of problem and was heading back to the airport, WHAS11 reported. The jet crashed soon after. His daughter turned back and landed safely, the West Kentucky Star reported.

The pilot's name hasn't been released. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating, and the sheriff's office said any word on a cause will come from those agencies. The crash site has been blocked off, and people are being asked to stay away.