4 in Rancho Santa Fe Family Identified as Crash Victims
A plane crash in northern San Diego County killed four members of a Rancho Santa Fe family, leaving behind a teen-age daughter who was away at school in Connecticut, officials said.
The victims were identified Monday by the county medical examiner as Joseph Larson, 41; his wife, Gail, 40; daughter Amy, 13; and son Eric, 11.
Another daughter, Elizabeth, 16, was not with her family when their single-engine plane crashed during a windy snowstorm Saturday night in the hills near Julian, about 40 miles northeast of San Diego. The family’s Piper Cherokee had departed from Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix and was headed to Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, north of San Diego, when it crashed sometime after 8 p.m., sheriff’s Sgt. Mike McNally said.
Larson was president of the Cardiff Software Corp. and a co-founder of Great Plains Software in Fargo, N.D.
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