Four Plane Crash Victims Identified
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LA PORTE, Calif. — Authorities have identified four people killed when a single-engine plane went down in stormy weather in the rugged Sierra Nevada, about 100 miles northeast of Sacramento.
The Plumas County Sheriff’s Department Saturday identified the victims as the pilot, James Johnson, 44, and his wife, Michelle, 42, of Euphreta, Wash., and her parents, 75-year-old Michael Belus and his wife, Mary, 69, both of Modesto.
Johnson was returning the older couple to their Modesto home after a visit to Washington when the crash occurred.
The Mooney aircraft went down Thursday in high winds and light snow about two miles from La Porte.
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