The victims and the wreckage of the plane were recovered from the reservoir Thursday.<\/p>\n
Ouray County officials identified the dead as 48-year-old Jimmy Hill, 30-year-old Katrina Barksdale, Barksdale\u2019s sons, 11-year-old Kobe and 8-year-old Xander, and Barksdale\u2019s 14-year-old nephew, Seth McDuffie.<\/p>\n
All were from Gadsden, Ala., where the flight originated.<\/p>\n
The single-engine plane crashed Saturday on a flight bound for Montrose, about 25 miles north of the reservoir. Federal aviation investigators are looking for the cause.<\/p>\n
The wreckage was upside down and partially buried in silt under about 60 feet of water.<\/p>\n
The single-engine Socata TBM700 crashed at about 2 p.m. Saturday into Ridgway Reservoir, about 25 miles south of Montrose and about 100 miles northeast of Cortez.<\/p>\n
The plane was bound for Montrose and had made an intermediate stop in Bartlesville, Okla., Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash isn\u2019t yet known.<\/p>\n
According to preliminary reports, the pilot reported that the plane was in a spin before losing communication, National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Eric Weiss said Monday.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s consistent with an eyewitness account from a woman who was attending a wedding nearby when the plane crashed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt popped out of the thick, heavy clouds and went into a flat spin,\u201d Lena Martinez told the Ouray County Plaindealer.<\/p>\n
Such eyewitness accounts have been turned over to the FAA and the NTSB for their investigations.<\/p>\n
The tail separated from the plane but the rest of the wreckage was relatively complete, although damaged, authorities said. Sheriff Dominic Mattivi said one wing was nearly severed.<\/p>\n
The plane is registered to an Alabama corporation. Messages left for the company weren\u2019t immediately returned.<\/p>\n
In Alabama, a makeshift memorial appeared outside Gadsden\u2019s Mitchell Elementary School for two boys thought to have been on the plane.<\/p>\n
Two small football helmets, two teddy bears, flowers and candles were piled among written notes from classmates.<\/p>\n
Stephen Powell of Gadsden brought his 9-year-old son to the memorial Monday afternoon. Powell said he had to make two stops because his son was too upset to get out of the car the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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