A couple from Georgia and their teenage daughter have been identified as the victims of a single-engine plane crash just outside the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia in Thursday.
Authorities identified the dead as 46-year-old pilot Lawrence Frederick Chapman the Third, of Brunswick, Ga.; his wife, 45-year-old Robin Dee Chapman; and 16-year-old daughter Katie M- Chapman.
The 1964 Piper fixed-wing plane departed from Georgia bound for Winchester and went down in a wooded area near Syria, which is about 15 miles west of Culpeper, Virginia. The plane was registered out of Florida.
State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said on Saturday that authorities were still removing the wreckage from the remote area.
Police said Federal Aviation Administration authorities called state police after they lost contact with the aircraft at 9 pm. Thursday.
The Civil Air Patrol joined state police searching for the plane. Officials detected the aircraft's emergency location transmitter at 10 am Friday and discovered the wreckage about two hours later.
The National Transportation Safety Board and state police are investigating the cause of the crash.
(Associated Press)
Sunday, September 9, 2007
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