Pilot of plane presumed to have crashed off California coast called ‘brilliant biologist’

A small plane that went missing Sunday off the coast of San Diego and is presumed to have crashed was being flown by a 67-year-old researcher who was remembered as a “brilliant biologist.”

Tsotne David Javahishvili went missing when the plane he was flying did not land at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport as planned. The Del Mar resident, who had taken off earlier from the Ramona Airport, was cleared to land by air traffic control but wasn’t heard from again.

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