The Sheriffs Office, along with Boyne City Police Department, Michigan State Police, Michigan DNR, Melrose Township Fire Department, Boyne Valley Township Fire Department, Boyne Valley EMS, and Boyne City EMS all responded to the last known area where the airplane was reported. Low 34F. According to the NTSB, Stephen Hatch had filed a flight plan to land at Boyne City Municipal Airport, but while in flight, he requested to divert to Boyne Mountain Airport because of weather in the area and the municipal airport's lack of an instrument approach. "It's her last memory before the crash," Christina Perdue said in a statement of her daughter, Laney, who was in stable condition Sunday afternoon at a children's hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Fatal 2021 Charlevoix County plane crash blamed on sleet, lack of speed 4 dead in Beaver Island plane crash, 11-year-old is the sole survivor. It was Abby who also encouraged him to try and inspire others, so in 2019, after working in the corporate office of Domino's and speaking to local organizations on the side, Austin left his job to pursue motivational speaking full-time. The remains of the plane were found in a wooded area west of Romaniak Road. In Charlevoix, the fire whistle was sounded in the mistaken belief that there was a fire somewhere in the North Point area.. By Jake Vigna. Says Austin: "I do everything I can to keep their spirit and their memory alive every day.". 4 killed, 1 injured in plane crash on Beaver Island Two men have died following a plane crash in Charlevoix County, according to the Charlevoix County Sheriffs Office. When he was just 8, his family's single-engine plane crashed into a utility pole in Wells County, Indiana, killing his mother, Julie, 38, and siblings Lindsay, 11, and Ian, 5, as they traveled home from their Walloon Lake, Michigan, lake house. Five people, including the pilot, were on board Saturday, Nov. 13,. Pilot Kenneth Daniel Yott, 61, of Pontiac and 21-year-old passenger Corbin Dennis Kennedy of Howell were found dead Monday afternoon in the Beechcraft King Air plane in a wooded area in.