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Dive team locates bodies of McKibbin, Mustain in Columbia River

Candelight vigil set for 6 p.m. Saturday at Pearson Field in Vancouver

By Dameon Pesanti, Columbian staff writer, and
Craig Brown, Columbian Editor
Published: March 25, 2016, 5:10pm
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John McKibbin's AT-6.
John McKibbin's AT-6. (Photo by Cliff Scrock) Photo Gallery

Divers with Clatsop County Search and Rescue on Friday discovered the bodies of two Vancouver residents involved in a plane crash in the Columbia River near Astoria, Ore.

The dive team also discovered John McKibbin’s aircraft, a North American AT-6A, broken into numerous pieces and scattered on the river bottom. 

 McKibbin, 69, and his passenger, Irene Mustain, 64, were found among the wreckage at about 1:30 p.m.

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