 Well, it's good to have you here on WTOP. A man is dead after a small plane crashed into a river in Talbot County, Maryland. That was shortly before 9.40 this morning. Maryland State Police say 56-year-old Robert Eugene Merlini was the pilot of a twin-engine Cessna that took off shortly before 9 from Tipton Airport in Fort Meade. Nobody else was on board. Police believe he was heading to Easton Airport before the plane crashed into the Tread Avon River close to the Traveler's Rest Circle southwest of Easton, Maryland. The