Two out of three victims of plane crash identified
February 9, 2009
Los Angeles, CA - Authorities were able to identify two of the three people who died in a plane accident that occurred in Catalina Island.
According to Los Angeles County coroner’s office, Amy Marie Judd, 25, resident of Idaho, and Marshall D. Goldberg, 39, resident of Florida, are assumed to be the two passengers who were killed in the incident that happened on an isolated area on the island’s western side.
The three bodies were found by a search-and-rescue team in a downed plane near Mt. Orizaba one day after the aircraft took off from the rain, coming from the island’s Airport in the Sky bound going to John Wayne Airport.
Orange County Sheriff’s Department Spokesman Jim Amormino said both of them were tourists traveling together and staying at the Ritz-Carlton resort located in Dana Point.
Judd and Goldberg’s bodies have not yet been examined. The two were identified through their driver’s licenses.
The third victim in the accident, who is a male, has not yet been officially identified, but he is assumed to be the small charter plane’s pilot, Mark Hogland, 48, president of Dana Point charter flight company SkyBlue USA.
Records of the Federal Aviation Administration revealed that Hogland had an instrument-rating driver’s license qualifying him to fly even in bad weather but he’s not licensed to conduct charter flights.