Identities Released of 3 Killed in Peninsula-Bound Plane Crash

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 'Ed' 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.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Mumbert was a bail bondsman from San Jose who was en route back to the Bay Area with an alleged bail-jumper-- Hernandez.

Drescher was an attorney with a law practice located in Half Moon Bay, though his residence was listed in Southern California, according to The Mercury News.

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.

"Some type of issue occurred shortly there after [takeoff] and the aircraft crashed into the surface parking lot," airport officials said Sunday night.

Though more than a dozen cars were damaged in the incident, no one on the ground was injured, airport officials said.

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.

– Bay City News Service contributed to this report.

(Image photo courtesy of the Reno Fire Department)