Coroner: 5 dead in small plane crash in rural Georgia woods

Foskey said his office was not yet able to release any information on the identity of those aboard the aircraft and that once the bodies were out the crash scene would be secured for investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The plane went down early Wednesday morning in a remote, wooded area near Highway 32 and Mesquite Road near the Rockingham community.

A single-engine plane crashed in southeast Georgia killing all five people aboard, officials said Thursday. Authorities found the plane wreckage Wednesday afternoon after the wife of the plane’s owner reported him and other passengers missing. “We don’t have an intact plane”, Peacock reportedly said.

Sheriff Foskey says they do not expect to find anyone else from the wreckage.

“From what I saw out there, there’s no way anybody could have walked out of that crash scene”, Foskey said.

Foskey said he flew over the crash scene in the state patrol helicopter just after the wreckage was spotted and that no one was found alive.

Authorities have identified them as: 38-year-old Waylon Dan Boatright of Alma, 20-year-old Angela Brooke Wade of Alma, 24-year-old Drayton Ashley Sears of Alma, Logan 23-year-old Elize Tomberlin of Alma, and 23-year-old Ethan Tyre Hampton of Alma.

The website for manufacturer Van’s Aircraft describes the RV-10 as a homebuilt, four-seat airplane sold in a kit.