Pilot who died in crash identified

The pilot who died in a plane crash on Saturday afternoon was identified by the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office this morning as 70-year-old Kenneth D. Chapman of Spokane. 

Family notifications have been made.

Chapman had been flying alone in his 1966 Cessna 185 airplane when, for an unknown reason, he crashed into a thickly wooded hillside near Horeshaven about 40 miles east of Coeur d'Alene.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.