GEARHART, Ore. - A single-engine plane crashed into a fogbound coastal home where a family was vacationing, killing the two people in the plane and three children on the ground.

A woman and two additional children were injured.

Pilot Jason Ketchson and passenger Frank Toohey were aboard the plane - a Cessna 172, which they had rented from Seaside Airport. They were headed to Klamath Falls.

When the plane crashed, a woman and five children were in the four-bedroom rental home at Gearhart. The house was being rented by two families for a family reunion and vacation.

The children killed were identified as 10-year-old Julia Reimann of Beaverton; and 12-year-old Hesam Farrar Masoudi and 8-year-old Grace Masoudi, both from Denver.

The injured were identified as 47-year-old Ruth Jackson-Reimann and two children, 13-year-old Christopher Reimann and 11-year-old Sarah Reimann. They were flown to Portland for treatment at a burn center. Their condition has not been disclosed.

Plane burst into flames

“People were yelling and screaming. It really was horrific,” a witness told KGW. "Everyone who saw this is pretty much in shock. The first house is just gone."

At a 1 p.m press conference, Gearhart City Administrator Dennis McNally said two children in the home were taken to in Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria and a woman was flown in a LifeFlight helicopter to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland.

McNally said the bodies of two children were recovered from the home and rescuers were searching for a third.

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Drew Black, a kgw.com viewer shared this photo from near the crash scene.

“This is the biggest thing that has ever hit Gearhart. It’s such a tragedy, everybody is devastated,” McNary said.

McNally said two adults who had been staying in the home had gone out for a walk before the crash occurred at about 6:37 a.m.

Dawn Black, who lives near the crash site, told KGW she heard a noise that "sounded like a lawn mower puttering out," followed by a loud explosion. Then, when the plane crashed, "it felt like an earthquake."

The home next door also caught fire and parts of the plane were scattered in the back yards, witnesses said. No one was in that home at the time of the crash.

Gearhart Fire Department found the house fully engulfed and it immediately went to three alarms. Fire Departments from Seaside, Warrenton, and Lewis and Clark responded.

The Astorian reports that houses all over Gearhart shook with the impact of the crash and officials at the golf course said it knocked out their power.

McNally said the plane is owned by Aviation Adventures of Seaside.

Conditions in the area were very foggy when the crash occurred, with low clouds, drizzle and light wind.

The Federal Aviation Administration is conducting an investigation.