A civil lawsuit has been filed in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court over the death of one of the passengers of the June 29 plane crash in Howland Township that killed all six on board.

Julianna Margala, the sister of 34-year-old crash victim Maria Weller, has filed a lawsuit against the owner of the plane and the estate of the pilot.

The six people who died in the crash were the pilot of the plane, 63-year-old Joseph Maxin; 55-year-old Timothy Blake, along with four passengers: 68-year-old Veronica Weller, 67-year-old James Weller II, 36-year-old John Weller and 34-year-old Maria Weller.

The six were killed when a plane crashed seven minutes after taking off from Youngstown Regional Airport on a flight headed to Bozeman, Montana. The plane went down about two miles west of the airport,

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