UPDATE: Journalists die in Montana plane crash

Some bad news from my neck of the woods: Four people, including a reporter and a business reporter/copy editor at the Kalispell (Mont.) Daily Inter Lake were aboard a small plane that went missing Sunday night in western Montana.

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/article_92baa4d6-82f6-11df-a22f-001cc4c002e0.html

The reporters are Melissa Weaver, 23, originally from Billings, and Erika Hoefer, 27, originally from Beloit, Wis. The two men on the plane (including the pilot) are from Missoula.

I'll be keeping these people in my prayers and hope for the best.

 

Re: Journalists aboard missing plane in Montana

Hoefer, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, is a Drake U. grad.

 

Re: Journalists aboard missing plane in Montana

Update, and it's not good. The plane was found today, and four bodies were found among the wreckage.

Terrible news. RIP Melissa Weaver, Erika Hoefer, Brian Williams and Sonny Kless. All young people in their 20s who were out for a sight-seeing flight on Sunday over and around Glacier National Park.

Weaver and Hoefer had both recently joined the Daily Inter Lake staff, in December.

Details from the Kalispell Daily Inter Lake:

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/article_deacb142-8484-11df-93b0-001cc4c002e0.html

 

So sad to hear this, especially because everyone in the plane was so young. RIP.

 

My prayers are with the families who lost their loved ones. May God bless all of them.