I never met these people but it is a sad ending.

Vancouver, WA leader killed in plane crash near Astoria, OR
John McKibbin and a friend were spreading her husband’s ashes. McKibbin, a local private pilot and one of Clark County’s best-known citizens of the last four decades, died Wednesday when his vintage military plane crashed near Astoria. Also missing and believed dead is a family friend, Irene Mustain. McKibbin and Mustain were on a mission to scatter the ashes of her late husband, an Air Force veteran and pilot, near the mouth of the Columbia River. Wednesday would have been Terry Mustain’s 69th birthday. He died in 2013. McKibbin is a former Clark County commissioner and real estate developer with a long list of local civic duties and awards. He was head of Identity Clark County, a civic group. They were flying a restored AT-6