Victims of deadly Kill Devil Hills airport crash identified

The five people who died when a Cirrus SR-22 airplane crashed into a wooded area at the Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport Saturday evening have been identified, according to the National Park Service.

The four adults who died in the crash are as follows, NPS says: Shashwat Ajit Adhikari, 31, from Silver Spring, Maryland; Jason Ray Campbell, 43, from Southern Pines, North Carolina; Kate McAllister Neely, 39, from Southern Pines, North Carolina; and Matthew Arthur Fassnacht, 44, from Marietta, Georgia. A 6-year-old child also died in the crash, NPS says. There were no survivors.

The plane was on a multi-leg flight that flight logs show originated out of Moore County and had most recently departed from Dare County Regional Airport, less than 10 miles away, before its approach at First Flight.

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