LAS VEGAS (AP) - Three people killed in a fiery small plane crash in a remote area near Las Vegas in November were a retired air traffic controller, his wife and mother-in-law, authorities said Wednesday.
Gregory Steven Akers, 60, Valeriya Slyzko, 48, and her mother, Nina Morozova, 71, died of multiple injuries in the Nov. 26 crash, the Clark County coroner said. They lived in Henderson, and their deaths were ruled accidental.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the the single-engine Cirrus SR22 was registered to Akers’ company, Baron Von Speed LCC, and was headed to North Las Vegas Airport when it crashed near Gass Peak.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators said burned wreckage was found about 400 feet (122 meters) below the rugged summit of the more than 6,900-foot (2,100-meter) mountain. A final report on the cause of the crash is expected in coming months.
Akers’ cousin, Tina Lopez, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Akers was a retired air traffic controller at McCarran International and Dallas-Fort Worth International airports and that Slyzko worked at a U.S. Postal Service processing office in Las Vegas.
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