CLINTON COUNTY, MI – Police have identified two pilots and a mechanic who died in a plane crash near Lansing.
Those killed in the Oct. 16 crash were identified as pilots Rodolfo Pimentel Zamora, 50, and Francisco del moral Jimenez, 55, and mechanic Alvaro Espejo Javier Rodriguez, 69. All three were from Mexico.
Bath Township police noted that these are not positive identifications, as DNA testing is required and will take several weeks.
Investigators worked in collaboration with the Mexican Consulate office in Detroit and the medical examiner’s office at University of Michigan Health Sparrow Hospital to make identifications.
Emergency crews first responded Oct. 16 to a report of a small aircraft that crashed near the intersection of Clark and Peacock roads in Bath Township, east of L