Federal investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and FAA made it to the scene of the Saint Marys Hageland Aviation crash on Sunday after a break in the weather made travel possible.

It is too soon to determine was exactly caused the crash of the Hageland Aviation Cessna 208 that took the lives of the pilot, 68-year-old Terry Hanson, and three Mountain Village passengers, 65-year-old Richard Polty, 57-year-old Rose Polty, and five-month-old Wyatt Coffee. NTSB investigators expect to spend up to two days at the site investigating the wreckage and interviewing witnesses.

The flight, carrying nine passengers and the pilot, had originated in Bethel and was ultimately scheduled to fly to Mountain Village after a stop in St Marys. But, the flight crashed four miles outside of St Marys after take-off in marginal weather reported to be one mile visibility and a three hundred foot ceiling and freezing rain according to reports.

The flight went down at approximately 6:30 pm, setting off the aircraft’s Emergency Locator Beacon. One of the survivors of the crash, 25-year-old Mary Coffee made a desperate call for help at 7 pm, asking for assistance resuscitating her five-month-old dchild, Wyatt then walked about one mile towards St Marys and help before getting to rescue teams from the village. She led searchers to the crash site.

All six of the survivors of the crash, Mary Coffee, Shannon Lawrence, Tanya Lawrence, Pauline Johnson, Kylan Johnson and Garret Moses, were transported to Anchorage hospitals for treatment of their injuries.