Authorities have identified the 4 people who were killed when their small plane crashed in Agua Dulce, a mountainous town about 44 miles north of Los Angeles, Sunday morning, Feb. 11th. The 4 people were identified as 65-year old Tom Hastings, who piloted the small aircraft, 27-year old Amber Hill, Tom’s daughter, 25-year old Jacob Hill, Tom’s son-in-law, and 9-year old Madison Hastings-Saxelby, Tom’s granddaughter. The 4 family members were traveling back to California from a family trip to Las Vegas. Authorities confirmed that Hasting left Henderson Executive Airport in his Cirrus VK-30 fixed-wing single-engine 5-seater airplane at some time around 10:00 a.m.

The 2 ½ hour flight was tragically cut short when the private plane broke apart crashing in a remote canyon where it scattered debris along a dirt road near Agua Dulce. First responders arrived to find all 4 occupants dead upon arrival.

1 witness, who lives a few acres from where the plane had crashed, described what he and his family heard and saw right before the plane crashed. "Here comes the plane right over the house, literally banks off to the right, really low. I mean, obviously, we're in a ravine in some mountains here, and it clipped the power lines, and it spun it around, and we didn't see anything else after that. We just got in the truck, brought a shovel, tried to get there as fast as we could. My dad and my neighbor were the first people there, and it didn't look too grim. It was a sad, you know, sad site," he said.

Jake Hastings, Thomas’ son, described his father’s passion for flying and how he spent time building the aircraft, “He loved to fly, and they tried to fly on vacations as much as he could. He even extended his garage out on the side street there to make room for it. He spent all of his free time working on it, putting it together.” Federal investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were back at the scene of the crash on Monday, combing through the wreckage of the small plane. The investigation is still pending.

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