All 5 Aboard Plane Die in Mountain Crash
Rescuers found no survivors in a plane that crashed in northeastern California with five people on board, a spokesman for the company that owns the aircraft said Friday.
“They are retrieving the bodies as we speak,” said Dave Weintraub, chief pilot for Commander Northwest, an East Wenatchee, Wash., company that provides planes and pilots for hire.
The plane, a twin-engine Aero Commander, left Reno on Wednesday morning en route to Wenatchee. It was spotted by air traffic control radar later that morning southeast of Alturas.
Modoc County Sheriff Bruce Mix said air searchers located the plane Friday morning in the rugged Warner Mountain Range, about 170 miles northeast of Sacramento.
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