One person died in the small plane that crashed and sparked a fire near Battle Ground on Friday.
A preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration said the pilot — the sole occupant of the Cessna C172 — lost control under “unknown circumstances.”
Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue personnel responded to the crash around 1 p.m. and found the plane fully engulfed in flames in a field near the Goheen Airport. Fire crews extinguished the blaze and prevented it from spreading to nearby trees and structures…