SEATTLE (AP) – Ground search crews recovered two bodies from the wreckage of a small airplane that crashed into a north-central Washington state mountainside last weekend, forcing a teenager who survived the impact to hike her way off a rugged slope to safety.
Deputies and volunteers who reached the wreckage found it burned out and smoldering.
The two victims haven’t been formally identified, but 16-year-old survivor Autumn Veatch has said her step-grandparents, Leland and Sharon Bowman of Marion, Montana, were killed in the crash.
The plane, piloted by Leland Bowman, was bringing Veatch home from a Montana visit.
The bodies were recovered Wednesday. Officials said the coroner will make a formal identification.