NTSB: ID of plane in Idaho crash could take days

BURLEY, Idaho (AP) — Federal transportation safety officials say the wreckage from a small plane crash in Idaho that reportedly killed a family of four was so badly burned that they have not yet been able to determine what type of aircraft it is.

Peter Knudson of the National Transportation Safety Board tells KTVB-TV that it may take a day or two for investigators to determine the plane’s registration number.

The plane went down Sunday afternoon near the runway at the Burley airport, in south-central Idaho.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus says four people died. KMVT-TV quotes Burley city administrator Mark Mitton as saying the four were all members of an Idaho family.

No names have been released.

The National Transportation Safety Board is sending an investigator to Burley on Monday to investigate the cause of the crash.