Coroner IDs 3 Victims In Crash Of Small Plane Enroute To Peninsula

SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA – Three people who died aboard a San Carlos-bound plane that crashed Sunday evening just after taking off from the Reno-Tahoe International Airport have been identified.

The victims are 57-year-old Robert Drescher of Stevenson Ranch, 46-year-old Edward Mumbert of Santa Cruz, and 34-year-old Ronni Hernandez, whose city of residence was not known, according to the Washoe County medical examiner's office.

The single-engine Piper Cherokee aircraft crashed around 6:15 p.m., just after takeoff, landing in the airport's parking lot, airport officials said.

The plane was headed to the San Carlos Airport, according to airport officials.

A cause for the crash has not yet been determined.

The National Transportation Safety Board will be taking witness statements, as well as examining the aircraft and weather conditions from Sunday evening as part of an investigation, NTSB spokesman Terry Williams
said.

The plane was registered to a company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to NTSB records.

• Also see: Pup Dumped In Park Finds Forever Home With Police Dispatcher

--Bay City News/Image credit Reno Fire Department