Jul 2, 2008 6:09 pm US/Pacific
Services Set For Oakley Couples Killed In Crash
OAKLEY (CBS 5 / BCN) ―
Memorial services will be held Thursday and Saturday at the Golden Hills Community Church in Brentwood for two Oakley couples who died in a plane crash in Nevada on Saturday, Oakley City Councilman Kevin Romick said.
Services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. for Craig and Michele Wilson and Saturday at 11 a.m. for Erik and Tanya Nunn, Romick said.
The church is located at 2401 Shady Willow Lane just off of Lone Tree Way.
On Wednesday, the Clark County coroner's office in Nevada confirmed that Craig Wilson, a 36-year-old Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer, and his wife Michele Wilson, 37, were two of the people killed in the crash. The couple left behind three children.
As of Wednesday afternoon, however, the coroner's office still had not confirmed the identities of the other two crash victims, believed to be Erik and Tanya Nunn. The couple left behind four children.
Erik Nunn was chair of the Oakley Planning Commission and a Contra Costa County Supervisor candidate.
The two couples had gone to Las Vegas to celebrate their wedding anniversaries and were flying home in a small plane believed to have been piloted by Erik Nunn Saturday afternoon when the aircraft crashed.
The plane, a Piper Cherokee, had departed North Las Vegas Airport at 2:30 p.m. and was headed to Byron airport in unincorporated Contra Costa County when, at about 2:45 p.m., it crashed into a hillside at the foot of Charleston Peak about 20 miles outside of Las Vegas, Federal Aviation Administration officials said.
The plane struck some power lines as it went down and erupted into flames, killing all four people on board and igniting the surrounding forest, investigators said.
Witnesses told investigators that the plane had been flying west along the valley with its engine running just before the crash. Flight records show that the plane had been serviced with fuel at the North Las Vegas airport before taking off, according to National Transportation Safety Board investigator Elliot Simpson.
Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the plane to go down, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.
"From what I've heard, it sounds like there may have been some kind of mechanical problem," Oakley City Councilman Kevin Romick said.
Trust funds have been set up for the seven orphaned children, who are all between the ages of 3 and 14, at the Bank of the West in Oakley, located at 2195 Main St.
Donations can be made to the Wilson Children Trust Fund, account No. 105156251 or the Nunn Children Trust Fund, account number 105156269.
The children are being cared for by their grandparents, Romick
said.
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