San Diego
The wreckage of a twin-engine plane and the bodies of four San Diegans were located Friday on Mt. Ashland, south of Medford, Ore., by a tree-planting crew in the Rogue River National Forest.
Joe Holden, assistant administrator for air operations and safety with the Oregon Division of Aeronautics, said the craft apparently crashed July 22 about 13 to 15 minutes after it took off from Medford bound for San Diego.
Holden said the Mt. Ashland area had been at the center of a weeklong air search but that the plane, burned and blackened, could not be located from the air even after its location was pinpointed.
National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Agency investigators will probe the wreckage in an attempt to find the cause of the crash.
The aircraft was piloted by Jesse Terry, 57, of San Diego and Hillsboro, Ore. Passengers were Terry’s wife, Enilo; Clint Reed, 26, and Gregory Szego, 34. The body of a German shepherd dog also was found in the craft.
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