Two Bodies Found In Wreckage Of Light Aircraft.

Leland and Sharon Bowman are found inside the Beechcraft A-35 which crashed on Saturday after flying through a cloud bank.

Search teams have recovered two bodies from the smouldering wreckage of a light aircraft which crashed into a Washington mountainside last weekend.

The victims have not been formally identified, but they are believed to be Leland and Sharon Bowman, of Marion, Montana.
Their step-granddaughter Autumn Veatch, 16, survived the crash and hiked for two days to reach a highway and get to safety.
She told authorities that they had been killed when the Beechcraft A-35 they were flying in flew through a cloud bank and struck trees before plummeting to the ground.
Autumn was released from a hospital on Tuesday and gave search teams information about where the
wreckage was.

Video: Autumn Veatch's 911 Call

She was then taken home to Bellingham, Washington, where family and friends had gathered at her father's apartment.

One of her friends, Amber Shockey, said: "We just want to show her and her family that we care and love her. She was happy to be coming home.

"It's astonishing that she could do this."

Autumn suffered minor burns and cuts and bruises in the crash, but was forced to hike along a creek after realising she could do nothing to help her step-grandparents.

She spent a night on a sand bar and drank small amounts of water from the creek because she feared she might get sick if she drank more.

The teenager then followed the river to a trail to a highway, where she was picked up by two men on Monday who took her to a store in Mazama.

Frank Rogers, Okanogan County Sheriff, said the aircraft was flying from Kalispell, Montana, to Lynden, Washington, when it entered a cloud bank.

As the clouds suddenly parted, Leland Bowman tried to pull up, but hit the trees and the plane crashed.

Source: skynews