Officials say the three people who were on board a plane that crashed in eastern West Virginia are dead.
Hardy County emergency management director Paul Lewis says
search teams reached the crash site Thursday night and confirmed
the fatalities.
A state medical examiner at the scene says officials with the
National Transportation Safety Board are expected before noon
Friday.
The Piper PA-32 Saratoga went missing Sunday night as it was
heading to Johnstown, Pa.
It dropped out of radio and radar contact in bad weather Sunday
night, 12 miles southeast of the Grant County Airport in Petersburg.
Family members have identified those on board as pilot Michael
Garrone of Allegheny Township, Pa., 52-year-old Chas Armitage Jr.
of Parks Township, Pa., and his girlfriend, 49-year-old Laura Stettmier.
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