The State : 5 Killed in Plane Crash

The badly burned bodies of five people were removed from the wreckage of a twin-engine plane that crashed into a fog-shrouded hillside in Orinda, authorities said. Investigators earlier had reported that only four people were aboard the Piper Navajo when it crashed. It burst into flames upon impact, east of San Francisco, burning the victims so badly that they could not be immediately identified, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said. An Orinda police spokesman said dental records will have to be used to identify the victims. It was the second Easter weekend tragedy involving small planes in Northern California. The pilot of a single-engine plane was killed just after takeoff when he crashed into a Mendocino County vineyard along U.S. 101, five miles north of Ukiah.