Deputies have released the name of the pilot involved in Sunday’s plane crash in Milton and believe he's hiding out in Alabama where he landed after parachuting out of his plane.

An image of  Marc Schrenker from a homemade video of a stunt flight he made in the Bahamas. Courtesy: YouTube

Marcus Schrenker, 38, of Indiana, was flying a six-seater Piper PA-46 Turbo Prop when he radioed a control tower in Atlanta of an in-flight emergency. According to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office press release, he stated his windshield had imploded and that he was bleeding severely.However, deputies currently at the scene have not be able to find evidence relating to Schrenker’s claim and the door to the plane was open.

Deputies believe the pilot intentionally abandoned the plane and parachuted to the ground.

Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office officials received a call around 2:26 a.m. on Monday from the Childersburg Police Department in Alabama. Their officers told deputies that a white male subject came up to one of their officers at a store in Childersburg and said that he had been in a canoeing accident with some friends, according to a recent SRCSO press release.

The subject was only wet from the knees down and had no other injuries. The subject was identified by the officer as Schrenker by means of an Indiana Driver’s License. Schrenker also had some goggles that looked like they were made for "flying".

The officers in that jurisdiction were unaware of the plane crash incident at that time and took the subject to a nearby hotel in Harpersville, Ala.

Later after hearing about the airplane crash incident, Childersburg Police Department called the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office, which confirmed Schrenker as the subject who was transported to the hotel.

Childersburg Police Department was advised of this and they went back to the hotel where Schrenker was dropped off. He checked into the hotel under a fictitious name and when authorities entered Schrenker’s room he was not there.

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The slip Schrenker filled out at the Harpersville Motel under assumed name "Jason M. Galonza." Courtesy: The Daily Home

After Schrenker paid for his room with cash, he put on a black toboggan cap and ran into the woods located next to the hotel. Authorities in that jurisdiction are continuing to look for Schrenker.  Numerous local, state, and federal agencies are currently assisting in Alabama, Indiana, and Florida in an effort to locate Schrenker. The FAA and the NTSB has just arrived to the crash site to begin their investigation into the crash.

Deputies responded to the area around 9:15 p.m., shortly after the pilot made an emergency call to the FAA Atlanta Center declaring an in-flight emergency approximately 35 miles southwest of Birmingham, Ala. The pilot said that the windshield of the plane had imploded and he was bleeding severely.

Officials from the Atlanta Center tried to divert the plane to the Pell City Alabama Airport, but the pilot wasn’t responding. The plane appeared to have been put in autopilot around 2,000 feet, according to a press release from the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.

Military jet aircraft were launched in an effort to intercept the plane, which was spotted approximately 12 miles north of NAS Whiting Field.

The jets deployed flares to illuminate the plane as it was flying and noticed that the door to the aircraft was open and the cockpit was dark. The jets continued to follow the plan and maintained visual contact until it crashed in a swampy wooded area near Blackwater River off Lakeside Drive.

The plane was headed to Destin.