Bodies in Plane Crash Identified as Simi Pair

The San Bernardino County coroner’s office confirmed Thursday that two bodies pulled from the wreckage of a single-engine plane that crashed in mountains 60 miles east of Barstow were those of a Simi Valley couple missing since April 17.

Dollard (Dell) Cadoret, 55, and Annie Cadoret, 48, had left Bullhead, Ariz., that morning and were due to arrive at Whiteman Airport in Pacoima three hours later.

But the plane slammed into the granite side of Fountain Peak at the 5,500-foot level in the Providence Mountains, said Tom Wilcox, air safety investigator for the National Transportation and Safety Board. The wrecked 22-foot plane was lodged on a 5-foot ledge there.

The couple died instantly, the coroner said.

Sheriff’s spokesmen did not confirm that the plane was the Cadorets’ Piper Cherokee 140, because the registration number was unreadable.

Climbers extracted the bodies from the wreckage Wednesday.

The national safety board is heading the investigation of the crash, assisted by officials of the Federal Aviation Administration and Piper Aircraft Corp., Wilcox said.

Dollard Cadoret was vice president of Hydro-Mill Co., an airplane parts manufacturer in Chatsworth.