Pilot, passenger in fatal Woodland plane crash ID’d

Authorities have released the identities of the pilot and passenger injured in a fatal plane crash that happened Thursday afternoon in Woodland. Angus Walker, 52, of Woodinville was identified by Woodland Police Sgt. Robb Lipp as the man piloting the Mooney M20K that went off the runway and through a fence at about 3 p.m. Thursday. Two passengers in the small airplane were identified as 36-year-old Jacob Kuper of Enumclaw and 56-year-old Marc Sebastian Messina of Renton, Lipp said. Messina, who was reportedly in the back seat, was pronounced dead at the scene. Derrek Amburgey, an operator at the Wastewater Treatment Plant which is located just north of the Woodland State Airport, witnessed the plane crash up an embankment and through the wastewater facility’s fence, according to a memo put out by the City of Woodland’s interim administrator Dennis Richards. Amburgey called 911 and arriving firefighters and medical personnel attended to the three men who were on board the plane, according to the memo. In Richards’ memo, he wrote that “although (Messina) had been breathing lightly earlier and had a light pulse, he had passed away when checked again.” "Firefighters had a tough time working through the tiny door to assist the injured," Richards wrote in the memo. "The cabin in this craft was built to hold four people, however, it was very tight and the three men were all over 250 pounds each and carried luggage." Walker and Kuper were taken to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, where they have since been treated and released. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer said that the plane crashed under unknown circumstances and that both the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.