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July 2, 2005
By KOMO Staff & News Services
LOPEZ, WASH. - A twin-engine plane carrying five members of a Sisters, Ore., family crashed and sank off the southwest tip of Lopez Island in the San Juans. Two people died and three were injured, a San Juan County sheriff's officer said.
Four of those aboard the Beech 55 escaped from the plane Friday evening and reached shore in the Davis Bay area, Undersheriff Jon Zerby said.
The least injured person - Brittany Christine Reed, 17 - reportedly made her way to a nearby house to call for help.
The male passenger pronounced dead on the shore was identified by the sheriff's department early Saturday as William Reed, 57. The body found by divers inside the plane in about 25 feet of water was identified as of Janet Marie Stuart Reed, 55.
Two other young - pilot William Ryan Reed, 23, and Ashley Brooke Reed, 25 - were evacuated for medical care, the young woman to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and the pilot to St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham.
The plane reportedly was en route to Friday Harbor in the San Juans from Redmond, Ore., said Karen Byrd, a Federal Aviation Administration duty officer in the Seattle suburb of Renton.
Mike Reed of Sisters, Ore., reached by telephone Friday night, said he was the owner of the plane but declined to discuss the crash.
A Coast Guard helicopter and one from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island responded to the crash, as did the Coast Guard cutter Wahoo, Lopez Island fire and aid personnel and sheriff's deputies, Zerby said.
July 2, 2005
By KOMO Staff & News Services
LOPEZ, WASH. - A twin-engine plane carrying five members of a Sisters, Ore., family crashed and sank off the southwest tip of Lopez Island in the San Juans. Two people died and three were injured, a San Juan County sheriff's officer said.
Four of those aboard the Beech 55 escaped from the plane Friday evening and reached shore in the Davis Bay area, Undersheriff Jon Zerby said.
The least injured person - Brittany Christine Reed, 17 - reportedly made her way to a nearby house to call for help.
The male passenger pronounced dead on the shore was identified by the sheriff's department early Saturday as William Reed, 57. The body found by divers inside the plane in about 25 feet of water was identified as of Janet Marie Stuart Reed, 55.
Two other young - pilot William Ryan Reed, 23, and Ashley Brooke Reed, 25 - were evacuated for medical care, the young woman to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and the pilot to St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham.
The plane reportedly was en route to Friday Harbor in the San Juans from Redmond, Ore., said Karen Byrd, a Federal Aviation Administration duty officer in the Seattle suburb of Renton.
Mike Reed of Sisters, Ore., reached by telephone Friday night, said he was the owner of the plane but declined to discuss the crash.
A Coast Guard helicopter and one from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island responded to the crash, as did the Coast Guard cutter Wahoo, Lopez Island fire and aid personnel and sheriff's deputies, Zerby said.