Two experienced pilots were confirmed Wednesday as the victims of a plane crash Monday afternoon southeast of La Center.
The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victims as Milo Luther Kays, 73, of Camas, and Dennis R. Kozacek, 70, of Ridgefield.
Kays was in the pilot’s seat of his small, two-seater airplane and Kozacek was a passenger when it went down for still-unknown reasons on a sunny spring afternoon. The wreckage was spotted by another private pilot. After a ground search, emergency responders found the plane in a shallow pond near the East Fork Lewis River, not far from the privately owned Daybreak airstrip.
Kays was the registered owner of the aircraft, a Vans RV-6 plane that is constructed from a kit. The white-and-blue plane was built in 1990.
