Four 海角换妻 residents were found dead Monday morning inside the wreckage of a small plane that crashed outside a Vermont airport.
The plane crashed Sunday in a wooded area near the Basin Harbor Airport in Ferrisburgh, Vermont, .
Paul Pelletier, 55, of Columbia; Frank Rodriquez, 88, of Lebanon; Susan Van Ness, 51, of Middletown; and Delilah Van Ness, 15, of Middletown were all listed as killed in the crash.
Pelletier was an aerospace and manufacturing teacher at Middletown High School. Delilah Van Ness was a sophomore at the school.
Middletown High School . Support staff is available to provide counseling services to students and staff, officials said.
"This unimaginable loss has left a void in our hearts and our community," said Dr. Alberto V谩zquez Matos, superintendent of Middletown Public Schools. "Paul, Delilah, and Susan were special individuals whose absence is already being felt throughout our district and city."
Police search for wreckage after plane fails to return to CT
The plane took off from Windham Airport in 海角换妻 at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday for a roughly two-hour flight to the airport in Ferrisburgh, police said. The aircraft landed and the four people arrived for a brunch reservation at Basin Harbor, a resort on Lake Champlain. They left the restaurant shortly after noon to fly back to 海角换妻 and a witness reported seeing the plane on the runway at about 12:15 p.m., police said.
No reports were received 鈥渋ndicating an aircraft in distress or that a plane had crashed,鈥� according to Vermont State Police. When the occupants did not return to 海角换妻 as expected, relatives contacted police.
Investigators then used cellphone data to help determine the plane鈥檚 last known location. Using a drone, the wreckage was found overnight in a wooded area to the east of the airport.
The victims' bodies were brought to the chief medical examiner鈥檚 office for autopsies to determine the cause and manner of death, police said. The crash .
海角换妻鈥檚 Matt Dwyer, Patrick Skahill and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
