Woodland plane crash victim ID’d as Renton man

The person who died in a plane crash at Woodland State Airport Thursday afternoon was identified as a Renton, Washington, man.

The Cowlitz County Coroner’s Office identified Marc Sebastian Messina, 56, as the man who died after the plane he was in, a Mooney M20K, went off the runway, through a fence and up an embankment.

The crash, reported at about 3 p.m., injured two other passengers aboard the plane, but their identity and conditions have not been released.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer said that the plane crashed under unknown circumstances and that both the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.