A 22-year-old pilot died on Saturday, 24 October, when the light plane he was flying crashed into the yard of a private property in the village of Bohot, near Pleven, the Pleven regional prosecutor's office said. The prosecutor's office is leading the investigation.

The property is uninhabited and no one else was hurt. Public buildings nearby were not seriously damaged.

The alert reached the 112 emergency line at 15:35 and went to the duty officer at the First District Police Department in Pleven. Police teams went to the scene at once and found the wreckage of a plane, registration LZ-TTE, in the yard. The pilot's body lay next to it.

Officers from the department guarded the area until a specialist team was formed.

The plane belongs to a company. It had taken off shortly before the crash from the Bohot LM airstrip, a civil airfield for general aviation.

The investigation is into breaches of traffic rules while piloting an aircraft and death by negligence.

An investigator, Interior Ministry experts and a forensic doctor examined the scene. Experts from the G. S. Rakovski Military Academy in Sofia and inspectors from the National Board for the Investigation of Accidents in Air, Water and Rail Transport also took part.

Authorities will soon order a combined flight and technical review, a technical review, a medical review and other expert reports. Investigators will gather more evidence to establish the cause of the crash.