Plane wreckage located; 7 bodies found
Wreckage of an airplane loaded with skydivers was found near Boise, Idaho, Monday and the bodies of seven of the 10 people on board had been found.
The single-engine plane, based out of Snohomish, Wash., had taken off Sunday with a pilot and nine sky-diving passengers for a season-ending leap. The wreckage of the Cessna 208 Grand Caravan was discovered about 7:40 p.m. Monday in a heavily wooded area east of White Pass in the Cascades mountain range, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
Search officials told the newspaper they had found the bodies of seven victims and were trying to verify the remaining three.
A hunter first reported seeing a low-flying plane and hearing a crash Sunday evening near Rimrock Lake. A search team followed the odor of fuel to the crash site, state emergency management officials said.
"It looks like we just lost a part of our family," Charlie Markin, treasurer of Seattle Skydivers, told the Post-Intelligencer. "It hurts. I don't know what other way to say it." // Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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