3 dead in small plane crash in Reno were bound for Bay Area
RENO, Nev. — Three people who died in a small plane crash into a vehicle parking lot at Reno-Tahoe International Airport had been headed to the San Francisco Bay Area, an airport official said Monday.
The Washoe County coroner’s office identified two of the dead as Robert Drescher, 57, of Stevenson Ranch, California, and Edward Mumbert, 46, of Santa Cruz, California.
The hometown of the third victim, Ronni Hernandez, 34, wasn’t immediately known.
The single-engine Piper Cherokee that crashed on takeoff Sunday evening had been bound for San Carlos, California, airport spokesman Brian Kulpin said.