It took off early Wednesday morning from the Bacon County airport crashing in the woods in the Rockingham community, near Alma just about six or seven miles from where it took off.
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Bacon County Coroner Vic Peacock said in an Associated Press report Thursday that four men and one woman were killed.
Boatright’s wife reported the plane and her husband had been missing since Tuesday, and that is when law enforcement began their search and eventually discovered the downed plane.
Sheriff Foskey says they do not expect to find anyone else from the wreckage.
The sheriff said he doesn’t believe any survivors would have been found had authorities located the crash sooner.
The deceased were identified as Waylon Boatright, the 38-year-old owner of the plane, Drayden Sears, 24, Logan Tomberlin, 23, Ethan Hampton, 23, and Angel Wade, 20.
Peacock said the plane clipped a couple of pines and then appeared to crash nose first, but he added that would be up to aviation officials to determine. “A lot of them were classmates in school”.
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A website for Van’s Aircraft Inc. of Aurora, Ore., said its RV-10 is a single-engine kit plane with seating for four adults.
