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Beach House Crash Survivors Recovering In Portland

Five Killed In Gearhart Plane Crash

POSTED: 6:18 am PDT August 5, 2008
UPDATED: 7:08 am PDT August 5, 2008

Three survivors are recovering in Portland on Tuesday after a plane crashed into a vacation home, killing five people.

No details have been released about the condition of the three survivors, Ruth Reimann and her two children, Christopher and Sarah. They were all inside the Gearhart home when the plane hit.

Also: Families Mourn Pilot, Passenger After Crash

Gearhart city manager Dennis McNally said one of the children jumped out a second-story window to escape the fire, while Reimann helped the other child to safety.

After being taken to coastal hospitals, they were flown by Life Flight to Emanuel Hospital in Portland.

Officials said 8-year-old Grace Masoudi, 12-year-old Hesam Masoudi and 10-year-old Julia Reimann were all killed in the crash. The pilot, Jason Ketcheson, and passenger, Frank Toohey, also died.

The Reimanns were visiting Gearhart for a family reunion. Their southwest Portland neighbors described them as a generous family.

"They would always bring us chicken soup when we were sick and they cared about us," said one neighbor.

The family rented the vacation home from Greg Marshall and his wife, who have owned the house for 20 years.

Marshall, who didn't know the Reimanns personally, received a call from a neighbor at 7:30 a.m. and he drove to Gearhart immediately.

"You didn't see the body bags, but you see people crying and sobbing and devastated," Marshall said. "And you tried to imagine the empathy and it's so foreign."

Marshall's daughter had her wedding at the beach house two years ago. The home was usually occupied with friends or family.

He said he's having a hard time accepting the tragic crash as reality.

"A plane is going to fall out of the sky in Gearhart and take out your family? No, no, that doesn't happen," he said.

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