Two from Sacramento killed in plane crash near Golden Gate Bridge, officials say
Authorities have identified both victims killed in a Friday plane crash near the Golden Gate Bridge as a Sacramento man and woman.
Coroner’s officials identified the victims as 57-year-old Michael B. Briare and 52-year-old Jennifer Lyn Fox, both Sacramento residents, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post Monday morning.
Leaders at Jesuit High School in Arden Arcade announced in a Saturday email to parents that Fox, the mother of a Jesuit sophomore and a senior at St. Francis High School, died along with a friend in a plane crash Friday.
Fox and Briare died after a single-engine Vans RV-10 crashed into the hills of the Marin Headlands northwest of the Golden Gate Bridge shortly after noon Friday, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said in a previous statement.
The plane’s emergency beacon was activated minutes later, and emergency responders located the aircraft around 2 p.m. in steep terrain, authorities said.
Two occupants of the plane were “located within the wreckage” and declared dead at the scene, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
“Locating the aircraft was hampered by heavy fog and condensation, which obscured visibility in the area,” the Sheriff’s Office wrote.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board and officials with the National Park Service’s Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
FAA registration information for the aircraft lists Briare as a co-owner, but the plane was not registered in his name.
Fox, who went by “JJ,” was also an aunt to five Jesuit High students, school president John McGarry and principal Michael Wood wrote in Saturday’s email, which included a link to grief counseling services at the campus.
