An air traffic controller sealed the fate of a pilot who died in a Long Island plane crash last week when he gave him directions to a landing strip that no longer exists, according to a preliminary accident report released Monday.

Joseph Milo was killed Aug. 16 when his single-engine Hawker Beechcraft BE35 crashed onto a Long Island Rail Road crossing in Hicksville near South Oyster Bay Road.

Amazingly, his passenger, Carl Giordano, 55, survived the crash.

After departing from his hometown of Westhampton Beach, Milo, 59, began experiencing some sort of mechanical problem as he headed for Morristown, NJ, the National Transportation Safety Board reports.

When he radioed in to Republic Airport in Farmingdale, the closest airport, and told them he would have to take his plane down, an air traffic controller gave him information about the locations of Republic, LaGuardia, Kennedy and Westchester airports.

Explaining that he was having altitude difficulties, Milo indicated he would attempt to get to Republic but said he was worried he might not make it there.

The air traffic controller instructed him to try to make it to “Bethpage strip” — a site associated with defense contractor Northrup Grumman that has been closed for decades.

Despite the strip having been shuttered for years, the unidentified controller insisted there was still a usable runway there, the NTSB report says.

Milo was unable to find the landing strip because it had been replaced with a series of industrial buildings.

“The next several transmissions between the controller and pilot revealed that the pilot was unable to see the runway,” the NTSB report says, adding that the controller continued to give Milo information about its supposed location anyway.

After failing to find a place to land, Milo crashed his plane at the railway crossing between the Hicksville and Bethpage train stations.

He was just eight nautical miles northwest of Republic Airport, according to the NTSB report.

The site of the former Bethpage strip is about a quarter-mile from where Milo crashed his plane, the NTSB said.