According to a San Bernardino County Sheriff/Coroner's release, the four victims of Sunday's small plane crash on Mt. San Gorgonio have been identified. Douglas Ralph Bowles, age 74 of Hesperia, was the pilot of the single-engine Piper aircraft. Bowles was accompanied by three passengers: Bowles’s grandson, Joshua Daniel Chlebek, age 28, a resident of North Hollywood, Oludare Ibiyemi Akinwunmi, age 29 of Sun Valley, and David Rodney Helland, age 60 of Encinitas.
At about 11:30 AM on Sunday, November 9, 2008, the aircraft was returning to Hesperia from Baja California and was lost from radar during a storm over the summit of San Gorgonio. The following day the wreckage of an aircraft was located on a slope west of the peak. San Bernardino Sheriff's Department Search and Rescue, along with Coroner investigators, responded to the scene via helicopter and confirmed the aircraft was the same as that lost on Sunday. The accident is under investigation by the National Transportation and Safety Board.
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