The single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area about three-quarters of a mile northwest of the airport. The plane, a Piper PA-46, was scheduled to land at the Rochester worldwide Airport but never made it. At around 2 p.m. today authorities were in the process of transporting the bodies of the plane’s four passengers this afternoon. Officers don’t know the crash’s cause, and also the kind of airplane wasn’t introduced.
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The identities of the four victims who died in a fiery plane crash in Lake Clear have been released. It appears that local ground crews monitoring radio traffic “did not any emergency distress call or anything like that”, he told North Country Public Radio.
Investigators from the state police, FAA and NTSB are still looking into what went wrong. Knudson said the plane had flown in earlier Friday from Rochester and was parked at the airport during the day. He also said first responders accessed the crash site, which he hadn’t seen, through a gate on the northeast side of the airport.
Shortino’s love of flying was well known, and Antonelli said that he knew his friend to be a very meticulous pilot. Fire departments responded to put out the flames from the crash. They were notified that a plane had gone down around 6:30 p.m. Troopers and investigators who responded to the crash found the plane completely destroyed.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration were called to the site to investigate the accident.
“Our thoughts are with their families”, he said. Investigators will look into the pilot’s experience, the plane’s maintenance record, interview witnesses and go over the weather at the time of the crash.
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The Enterprise will report further from the scene as information becomes available.
