The pilot of a plane which crashed Sunday night in Florida is still missing. Rescue workers are still searching for him and the Federal Aviation Administration will soon begin an investigation into the incident.

Only the pilot was aboard the six-seater plane – a Piper PA-46 - that did not have an ejection feature, according to Steve Darlington, the manager of Anderson Municipal Airport in Anderson, Indiana, where the plane took off.

The pilot did manage to contact air traffic controllers. First he reported severe turbulence and then he told hem the aircraft’s windshield had imploded and that he was bleeding abundantly, said Sgt. Scott Haines of the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office, CNN reported.

The pilot made the call to air traffic control when he was about 35 miles southwest of Birmingham, Alabama. He did not respond to the controllers’ indication to divert the flight to Pell City, Alabama. It seems that the plane had been put on autopilot.

Military Jets from Whiting Field took off to intercept the plane. The military pilots said they saw the broken windshield, the cockpit was dark and the door open.

The pilot reportedly owns a couple of airplanes and flies regularly, said Darlington.

The jet went down at about 9:15 CT near Blackwater River in East Milton, Florida. When rescue workers found it, it was upside down with the door open and its cockpit empty. As the pilot said, the windshield was broken.

Several helicopters, planes, boats and rescue workers with search dogs are involved in the search.