A California family and a hired pilot have been identified as the four victims of a plane crash that occurred North of Eugene on Friday. Linn County Sheriff Bruce Riley says John A. Zitting, 42, Karen Blackmore, Zitting, 37, and their 17-year-old son John Brendan Zitting, all of Van Nuys, were on board the single-engine plane that went down in a field near Peoria. Mark Aletky, 67, of Acton, California was piloting the plane. All four on-board died in the crash.
The family was on a college scouting trip to visit the University of Oregon. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.